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When I was thinking about doing a PhD in Spanish literature, I knew I wanted to study the Golden Age but was also looking for something a little different. I wanted to stay away from towering giants like Cervantes, Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Quevedo, and so on.

Not because I don’t like them – I think they are wonderful – but because I found the idea of reading up on them simply overwhelming.

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And I had no idea what I could possibly contribute.

As it happened, my directora de tesis was an art historian who worked on Juan de Pareja, an Afro-Spanish Golden Age painter. I thought I might do something similar but in literature, and found an Afro-Spanish writer and professor at the university of Granada – in sixteenth-century in Spain: how cool is that?

– called Juan Latino.

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Unfortunately for me, as his name suggests, he wrote in Latin. Still, I was intrigued and I read a study about Black Africans in Renaissance Europe.

And there she was, in a footnote somewhere, hidden awa