Martha Blanco

Martha Blanco
  • Ph.D. Student
  • GTA
  • College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Spanish & Portuguese

Contact Info

Wescoe Hall 2022
Lawrence

Biography —

Martha Blanco, PhD in Spanish Literature (cum laude, International Distinction) from the University of Santiago de Compostela, researches the connections between Spanish and Portuguese poetry during the Spanish Golden Age. Her work primarily focuses on the historiography and critical approaches to 16th-century Spanish poetry, with special attention to poetic schools and Italianate lyric. In parallel, she has shown interest in the querelle des femmes and apologetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries, focusing on authors such as Álvaro de Luna, Diego de Valera, Fray Martín de Córdoba, and Juan de Espinosa, among others. Her current research centers on Faria e Sousa’s commentaries on Luís de Camões’s Rimas várias (1685-1688), as well as on the evolution and theory of certain poetic genres, particularly the ode.

Research —

Research interests:

  • Early Modern Spanish literature
  • Hispano-Portuguese poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries
  • Italianate verse forms and poetic techniques
  • Golden Age poetic manuscripts and miscellanies

Teaching —

Teaching interests:

  • Early Modern Spanish literature
  • Renaissance and Mannerist poetry
  • Textual criticism
  • Stylometric analysis
  • Poetic genres

Selected Publications —

Blanco González, Martha, and Soledad Pérez-Abadín Barro. “Textos y autores luso-castellanos de los siglos XVI y XVII.” Criticón, no. 134 [monographic issue coord. by Soledad Pérez-Abadín Barro and Martha Blanco González], 2018, pp. 5-34.


Blanco González, Martha. “Lucrecia tras el muliebre certamen: defensa y vituperio.” Conjuntando la mirada y el verso. Nuevas perspectivas de estudio de la Literatura española, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Jaén, 2019, pp. 20-36.


—. “Manuel de Faria e Sousa: entre la exégesis humanista y el ensayo.” Visiones histórico-literarias de España y el Nuevo Mundo en la tradición clásica, edited by Jesús Paniagua Pérez and Ángel Ruiz Pérez, Peter Lang, 2021, pp. 87-112.


—. “Paternidad poética controvertida o España y Portugal en el marco de las Rimas várias de Faria e Sousa.” Entre Italia, Portugal y España: ensayos de recepción literaria. Entre Itália, Portugal e Espanha: ensaios de recepção literária, edited by Soledad Pérez-Abadín Barro, Rita Marnoto, David González Ramírez, and Martha Blanco González, USC Editora, 2022, pp. 307-36.


—, translator. Elementos de crítica textual, by Barbara Spaggiari and Maurizio Perugi, USC Editora-Académica, 2026.


—. “La preceptiva de la oda desde las poéticas del siglo XVI hasta Faria e Sousa.” Recentes achegas á investigación literaria dende a posteridade doutoral, USC Editora, 2026, pp. 47-65.


—. “Manuel de Faria e Sousa: excursos a los géneros poéticos (odas y canciones).” Fragmentos de poética peninsular: géneros, generaciones y escuelas en la era del manierismo, Iberoamericana/Vervuet, 2026, pp. 315-26.
 

Awards & Honors —

2025: Summer Research Scholarship, Graduate Studies, University of Kansas.

2026: L. R. Fox Scholarship, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas.

2026: Alva V. Ebersole Award for Outstanding Scholarly Paper, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas.