Education

• Ph.D., University of California-San Diego

Specialization and Research Interests
Professor Blanco specializes in contemporary Spanish literature and culture, and has dedicated much of her research and writing to investigating questions of the intersection between gender and cultural production. Her book, Escritoras virtuosas: narradoras de la domesticidad en la Espana isabelina, studies an important, but nevertheless forgotten, generation of Spanish women writers.

Selected Publications

• La De Bringas (Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Writings). Co-edited with C. Blanco Aquinada. Catedra, 2006.
• Lo Prohibido/ The Forbidden (Nuestros Clasicos/ Our Classics). Co-edited with Benito Perez Galdos. Akal Ediciones Sa, 2006.
• Escritoras virtuosas: narradoras de la domesticidad en la Espana isabelina. Granda, Spain: Universidad de Granda: Caja General de Ahooros de Granada, 2001.

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