Diana Berruezo-Sánchez

the black African diaspora in early modern Spain, exploring the active diasporic experiences of Black women and men, and their spaces for poetic and cultural negotiation, advancing the underexplored field of Black poets and Black poetic voices in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century Spain, the cultural agency of Black women and men and the way their presence contributed collectively and anonymously to the era’s literary texts, silenced representations of Black poets in early modern Spain, early modern Spanish literature in connection with Italian sources, the ways in which literary texts circulate beyond their national borders, creating a network of influences that is key to the understanding of the development of literary traditions

Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature (1500-1750) (OUP, 2024), forthcoming article at Bulletin of the Comediantes