I specialize in Early Modern Spanish literature, with a focus on Gender and Women's studies as well as Gender Theory. My main interests center on masculine and feminine subjectivities and the sociopolitical motivations and implications of their representations during the Golden Age. I look at issues of power in relation to the dynamics between men and women, specifically as it applies to verbal (linguistic, legal, religious, political, literary) and non-verbal (physical, cultural) dimensions of normative or disruptive conceptions of gender identity.
Research Areas
- Gender Studies
- Women Writers
- Early Modernity
- Social Justice
- Hegemony and Power
- Queer Theory
Dr. Granja’s research interests focus on 17th and early 18th-century Spanish peninsular literature. He specializes in Early Modern Spanish literature through a Gender studies perspective. His work deals with masculine identities in the Golden Age, specifically analyzing the literary and sociopolitical motivations and implications of masculine identity formation as exposed by both male and female writers. He is also engaged in research that focuses on variations in didactic literature from mid to late 17th century Spain, observing and contrasting how writers employ discourses of religion and traditional moral values to chastise what they consider irregularities in the coetaneous aristocracy. This investigative work also leads his work to look at early 18th-century women writers, as the result of the impact of 17th-century cultural changes that begin to form literary evidence of the beginnings of a pre-illustration period proto-feminism.
