Enrique Fernandez

Enrique Fernandez is professor of Spanish at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He specializes in early modern Spanish literature and culture and is the author of many articles on the subject. He is also the director of the portal Death and Gender in Early Modernity and of the online portal Celestina Visual. He was president of the Canadian Association of Hispanists and founding president of the Círculo de Estudios de la Literatura Picaresca y Celestinesca CELPYC.

• PhD (Spanish Literature), Princeton University, 1998
• MA (Spanish Literature), University of Calgary, 1994
• Licenciado (MA equivalent) (Classical Philology), Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), 1984

Research interests

• Early modern Spanish literature and culture
• Early modern gender and death
• La Celestina
• Picaresque literature
• History of medicine

Research summary

Enrique studies the Spanish literary masterpiece La Celestina, its sources, reception and the iconography derived from it. He also studies the intersection of death and gender in the early modern period.

• "The Image of Celestina: Illustrations, Paintings, and Advertisements", Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2023.
• Editor of "A Companion to Celestina". Leiden: Brill and the Renaissance Society of America, 2017. 
• "Anxiety of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain." Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2015. Awarded MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize 2016, and Canadian Association of Hispanists' Best Book Award 2016. 
• "Pornoboscodidascalus Latinus (1624): Kaspar Barth's Neo-Latin Translation of Celestina." Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
• "Celestina comentada." With Louise † and Peter Fothergill-Payne. Salamanca, Spain: Ediciones de la Universidad de Salamanca, 2002.

• 2016 - MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for the best book on Spanish culture and literature for Anxiety of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
• 2016 - Canadian Association of Hispanists' Best Book Award, to the best book published 2013-2015, for the book Enrique Fernandez, Anxiety of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
• 2014, 2006 - Merit Award in Research, Scholarly Works and Creative Activities of the University of Manitoba and University of Manitoba Faculty Association.
• 2009 - Ten most influential Hispanic Canadians Award, awarded by the Hispanic Business Association (HBA) and Scotia Bank, Toronto.
• 2005 - Rh Institute Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research and Scholarship.

• Curator of the exhibit "500 Years of Celestina's Visual Culture", June 1 to 4 2016, during the Conference of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities of Canada, U of Calgary, Galley 621.
• Editor and founder of the online magazine of literary short stories Proyecto Sherezade (1996 to present).
• Director of the Newsletter La_Celestina.