Blanca Santos de la Morena holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies (2017) and a B.A. in Spanish Philology, both from the Autonomous University of Madrid. In 2019 she obtained an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, developed at the University of Münster. Her principal research interest is the relationship between religion and literature in the Spanish Golden Age. Her doctoral thesis tackled the presence and treatment of religion in Miguel de Cervantes’s literary production, while her project as a Humboldt Fellow was focused on the construction of the identity in the work of this author. In parallel, she has also studied Lope de Vega’s literary career, with numerous articles about his dramatic works while also attending to his prose and poetry. To a lesser extent, she has also addressed the poetry of San Juan de la Cruz and the pastoral novel. Presently, Blanca Santos de la Morena is Ramon y Cajal researcher at the University Complutense of Madrid.

Bibliography 

Books

• Santos de la Morena, B. (2019), Aunque es el cielo de la tierra: lo religioso en el Persiles en diálogo con la obra cervantina. Vigo: Academia del Hispanismo.

Critical editions

• Santos de la Morena, B. y Piqueras Flores, M. (Eds.) (2022), La discreta venganza. En Lope de Vega, Parte XX de comedias, coords. G. Gómez Sánchez-Ferrer y D. Fernández. Madrid. Gredos: 113-281.

Papers

• Santos de la Morena, B. (2024). “Libertad, matrimonio y violencia en La Galatea: una lectura desde la trama principal”. eHumaanista Journal of Iberian Studies 58 : 74-89.
• Santos de la Morena, B. (2024). “Manuel Casal Aguado y Alberto Lista, ilustres copistas de «El semejante a sí mismo» de Ruiz de Alarcón”. Edad de Oro 43: 93-111. https://doi.org/10.15366/edadoro2024.43.003
• Santos de la Morena, B. (2023). “Isabela ante Elizabeth: sobre la tolerancia de la reina y la construcción de la identidad femenina en La española inglesa de Cervantes”. RILCE: Revista de filología hispánica, 39 (2): 772-794. https://doi.org/10.15581/008.39.2.772-94
• Santos de la Morena, B. y Piqueras Flores, M. (2023).  “«Berzas con capachos»: El curioso impertinente en el entramado del Quijote de 1605”. Janus: estudios sobre el Siglo de Oro 12: 495-519. https://doi.org/10.51472/JESO20231221
• Santos de la Morena, B. (2022), “La española inglesa y el inglés español, una doble novela de cautiverio”, Revista de Literatura 84 (168): 677–690. https://doi.org/10.3989/revliteratura.2022.02.026
• Santos de la Morena, B. (2021). “Maternidad y presencia femenina en La española inglesa de Cervantes”. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 75 (2): 81-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2021.1909880.

Keywords
Cervantes, literature and religion, intratextuality, Spanish Golden Age, identity, female spirituality, gender