Enrique Fernandez

Enrique Fernandez is a Professor of Spanish at the Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba, Canada. With a PhD in Spanish Literature from Princeton University (1998) and MA degrees from University of Calgary (1994) and Universidad de Oviedo (1984), his career spans four decades of research, teaching, and digital humanities innovation.

His research focuses on La Celestina studies, early modern gender/death intersections, and medical humanities. He co-founded the Celestina Visual digital archive and directs the Death and Gender in Early Modernity project. Key publications include The Image of Celestina (2023) and Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain (2015), the latter winning MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize.

Recent work explores Baroque reliquaries, automata, and digital methodologies for analyzing early modern visual culture. His articles demonstrate chronological expertise from 15th-century illuminated manuscripts to 21st-century cinematic adaptations, with recurring themes of bodily representation, gender performativity, and transatlantic cultural exchange.

Award highlights:

• MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize (2016)
• Canadian Association of Hispanists' Best Book Award (2016)
• University of Manitoba Merit Awards (2014, 2006)

As founding president of Círculo de Estudios de la Literatura Picaresca y Celestinesca (CELPYC) and former Canadian Association of Hispanists president, he bridges academic research with public engagement through digital exhibitions and educational software development.