Cornesha Tweede

Cornesha Tweede is a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University. In the Fall of 2024, she will be an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages with a specialization in African Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research agenda explores race, gender and the place of Africa in early modern cultural studies. Her work invites us to embrace the legacy of Blackness on the Iberian Peninsula, and to address the ways in which it has been suppressed within conventional, canonical scholarship, criticism and pedagogy of the early modern period. She is co-editor of Iberia Negra. Textos para otra historia de la diáspora africana (siglos XVI y XVII) that will be published with Routledge in July 2024 with Diana Berruezo-Sánchez and Manuel Olmedo Gobante. She is currently at work on her first monograph that examines literary depictions of black African women in early modern Spain and Portugal.