Cornesha Tweede

Assistant Professor, Spanish, Portuguese,

School of International Letters and Cultures

Cornesha.Tweede@asu.edu

Mail code: 0202

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Cornesha Tweede is an assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. Previously, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at ASU. She received her PhD 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.

Education

Ph.D. University of Oregon
M.A. University of Central Arkansas
B.A. Oral Roberts University

Research Interests

Africana Studies, Black Studies, Critical Race Studies, Iberian Studies, Lusophone African Literature, African Baroque, African Diasporic Studies, Gender Studies, early modern literary and cultural studies, material and visual studies, Black Feminisms

Courses

2025 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
SPA 325	Intro to Hispanic Literature
SPA 325	Intro to Hispanic Literature
SPA 325	Intro to Hispanic Literature

2024 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SPA 325	Intro to Hispanic Literature
SPA 325	Intro to Hispanic Literature