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Publications

Books

  • Black but Human: Slavery and Visual Culture (15th-18th centuries). (In preparation).

Articles

  • 2012. ‘The Fall into Oblivion of the Works of the Slave Painter Juan de Pareja’, translated by Hilary Macartney, Art In Translation, vol. 4.2 (June), pp. 163-184.
  • 2009. ‘El problema del blanqueamiento en las imágenes del afro-hispano en la España Imperial y en Nueva España’, Revista Chilena de Antropología Visual, volume 14 (December), 67-82.
  • 2004. '(Lack of) Visual Representation of Black Slaves in Spanish Golden Age Painting', Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Tesserae), volume 10 (June), 23-34.
  • 1999. ‘Gaspar Becerra: a Spaniard in the workshop of Daniele da Volterra’, The Sculpture Journal, volume 3, 6-13.
  • 1997-1998. ‘La herencia italiana de Gaspar Becerra en el retablo mayor de  la Catedral de Astorga’, Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte, volume 9-10, 133-151.
  • 1997. ‘El retablo mayor de la Catedral de Astorga. Un concurso escultórico en la España del Renacimiento’, Archivo Español de Arte, volume 60 (December), 62-73.
  • ‘Cristofano dell'Altissimo', The Macmillan Dictionary of Art, I, p. 730 (London: Macmillan, Publishers Ltd., 1996). Reprinted in the Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance & Mannerist Art (London: Macmillan, 2000), I, p. 38
  • `Documenti della Sala del Risorgimento del Palazzo Comunale di Siena', Bullettino di Storia Patria, 90 (1983), 239-248.

Chapters in books

  • ‘La mulata de Velázquez’, in Aurelia Martín Casares and Rocío Periáñez Gómez (eds.), Reparaciones europeas contemporáneas y memoria de la esclavitud: esclavas negroafricanas y españolas abolicionistas (siglos XVI al XIX). Forthcoming 2014.
  • ‘Metamorphosis of the Self in Early Modern Spain: Slave Portraiture and the Case of Juan de Pareja’, in Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Angela Rosenthal (eds.), Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press). Forthcoming September 2013. ISBN:9781107004399.
  • ‘Spanish Depictions of the Miracle of the Black Leg’, in Kees W. Zimmermann (ed.), One Leg in the Grave Revisited: The miracle of the transplantation of the black leg by the saints Cosmas and Damian (Groningen: Barkhuis, 2013), pp. 79-91.
  • ‘The Urban Slave in Spain and New Spain’, in Elizabeth McGrath and Jean Michel Massing (eds.), The Slave in European Art: From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem. The Warburg Colloquia Series, Vol. 20 (London and Turin: The Warburg Institute and Nino Aragno Ed., 2012), pp. 195-216. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Spain solely based on my chapter.  See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Pareja
  • ‘Women’s Artistic Production and their Visual Representation in Early Modern Spain’, in Geraldine Hazbun and Xon de Ros (eds.), A Companion to Spanish Women’s Studies (Woodbridge: Tamesis  Boydell & Brewer, 2011), pp. 129-42.
  • ‘El esclavo negroafricano en las imágenes españolas de los Santos Cosme y Damián’, in Aurelia Martín Casares and  Margarita García Barranco (eds.), La esclavitud  negroafricana en la Historia de España. Siglos XVI y XVII (Granada: Comares, 2010), pp. 127-49.
  • ‘Constructing the Black Slave in Spanish Golden Age Painting’, in Tom Nichols (ed.), Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe: Picturing the Social Margins (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 179-95.
  • ‘Depicting the Iberian African in New Spain’, in Jean Andrews and Alex Coroleu (eds.), Mexico 1680: Intellectual and Cultural Life at the Apogee of the Barroco de Indias (Bristol: Hiplam, 2007), pp. 49-68.
  • ‘El olvido de las obras del esclavo pintor Juan de Pareja’, in Gabriela Siracusano (ed.), Imágenes perdidas: censura, olvido, descuido (Buenos Aires: Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte, 2007), pp. 69-82.
  • ‘Representación de la esclavitud negra en la España imperial y la problematización del par “original-copia”, in Gabriela Siracusano (ed.), Original-Copia…Original? (Buenos Aires: C.A.I.A., 2005), pp. 269-79.

Reviews of books

  • 2007 Review of William B. Jordan, Juan van der Hamen y León and the Court of Madrid. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2005. 333 pp., Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Vol. 8.2 (July 2007), 293-294.
  • 2006 Review of Fernando Bouza, Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain, Trans. by Sonia López and Michael Agnew, foreword by Roger Chartier. (Material Texts). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, Renaissance Studies,  Vol. 20.1 (February 2006), 112-113.

Selected conference papers and invited lectures

  • March 2013.  ‘The Visual Representation of Afro- Hispanic Slaves in Early Modern Spain’. Literature, Ideas and Society Seminars. Culture and Commodity, The Warburg Institute, London, UK.
  • May 2012. ‘La metamorfosis de Juan de Pareja’. International Symposium, Esclavitud, mestizaje y abolicionismo en el mundo hispánico. Horizontes Socio-culturales, University of Granada, Spain.
  • May 2012. ‘The Emergence of Early Modern Slavery and the Problematization of Whiteness in the Visual Form in Imperial Spain’. Old and New Ethnicities: Conflicts and Communities, Workshop, Departments of Applied Linguistics and Communication, European Cultures and Languages, Iberian and Latin American Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
  • March 2012. ‘Slavery and Slaves in Early Modern Spanish Visual Culture’.  On the Margins? Rethinking the Problem and Place of ‘Outsiders’ 1400- 1800. British Academy founded. St Anne’s College, Oxford, UK.
  • March 2012. ‘Slavery and Visual Culture in Imperial Spain’. Guest Lecture. European History 1500-1800 Seminar. Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London and Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, UK.
  • October  2011. ‘Slave Subjectivity in Imperial Spain’. Representations of Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean, Southern Historical Association, Baltimore-Maryland, USA.
  • September 2011. 'Afro-hispanos en la pintura de Velázquez: la mulata y Juan de Pareja’. 3rd  Internacional Congress of Afroeurope@ns, Afroeurope@s: Culturas e Identidades’, University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain.
  • April  2011. ‘Slavery and Visuality in Imperial Spain: The Miracle of the Black Leg’. Guest Lecture. The Early Modern Society, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
  • November 2010. ‘The Visual Formation of Slave Subjectivity in Spain’. Guest Lecture. Birkbeck Staff Renaissance Research Seminar, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
  • October 2010. ‘The Subjectivity of Slaves in Imperial Spain: The Case of Slave Painter Juan de Pareja’. Guest Lecture. Research Seminar History of Art at the crossroad? Departments of History of Art and Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK.April 2010.
  • April 2010.‘The Image of Colonial Mexico in Hampshire: the Braemore Casta Paintings’. 36th Annual Conference of Art Historians (AAH), Insular Preconceptions? The Arts of Iberia and Latin America and their Reception in Britain, University of Glasgow, UK.
  • July 2009. ‘El problema del blanqueamiento en las imágenes del afro-hispano en la España Imperial y en Nueva España’. Guest Speaker, 53rd International Congress of Americanists (ICA), The Peoples of the Americas: Change and Continuity, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • June 2009. ‘Questioning Slavery in Spain and New Spain’. International Conference LASA (Latin American Studies Association), Rethinking Inequalities, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • June 2009. ‘El esclavo negroafricano en las imágenes españolas de los Santos Cosme y Damián’. International Workshop, Los negroafricanos y sus descendientes en España (1492-1866), University of Granada, Spain.
  • May 2009. ‘The Miracle of the Black Leg’. Birkbeck Research in Representations of Kinship and Community (BRRKC), Official Launch. ‘Conversation’ as Community: On the Stakes of Painting and Photographing the Bonds of Kinship and Community. Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
  • April 2009. ‘The Subjectivity of Afro-Hispanic Slaves in Imperial Spain: The Case of Juan de Pareja’. Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
  • November 2008. ‘La representación visual del esclavo urbano en la  España Imperial y en Nueva España’. Guest Lecture, Instituto de Historia, Centro de Ciencia Humanas y Sociales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
  • October 2008. ‘Goya y la guerra de la Independencia’. Colloquium, The Peninsula War, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Instituto Cervantes, London, UK.
  • June 2008. ‘Arte y esclavitud en la España Imperial: el trasplante milagroso de la pierna negra’. Guest Lecture, Instituto de la Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia López Piñero, University of Valencia, and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Valencia, Spain.
  • April 2008. ‘The Braemore Collection of Mexican Castas Paintings’. Guest Lecture, ARTES (Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group), Braemore House, Wiltshire, UK.
  • December 2007 ‘The Outsider’s Gaze: Depicting Black People in Spain’. Imagining Iberia, Research Symposium, King’s College London, University of London, UK.
  • November 2007. ‘Art and Slavery in Early Modern Spain’. Guest Lecture. Spanish Cultural Institute and ARTES (Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group), Instituto Cervantes, London, UK.
  • November 2007. ‘The Urban Slave in Spain and New Spain’. The Iconography of Slavery in Europe, 1500-1800,The Warburg Institute, University of London, UK.
  • October 2007. ‘Me, Myself and My Project: “Speaking the Self”’. Roundtable. Co-organised with Jessamy Harvey (Birkbeck) and Jennifer Fraser (Birkbeck). 8th Annual Conference, Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (WISPS), Me/Myself/I: The Local and The Particular, University of Manchester, UK.
  • September 2007. ‘El olvido de las obras del esclavo pintor Juan de Pareja’. 4th  International Congress of Theory and History of Art (CAIA), Imágenes perdidas: censura, olvido, descuido, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • January 2007. ‘Questioning Slave Portraiture in Early Modern Spain: The Case of DiegoVelázquez and Juan de Pareja’. Guest Lecture. The Early Modern Society, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
  • September 2006. ‘The Hardest Graft of All: the Miracle of the Black Leg in Early Modern Spain’. Inaugural Conference, Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, Medicine and the Body Politic, University of Brighton, UK.
  • February 2006. ‘Becoming the Self or Somebody Else: The Case of the Afro-Hispanic Slave Painter Juan de Pareja’. School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture, Research Forum Seminar, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
  • September 2005. ‘Representación de la esclavitud negra en la España imperial y la problematización del par “original-copia”. 3rd International Congress of Theory and History of Art (CAIA), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • April 2005. ‘Representing Black Slavery in Early Modern Spanish Urban Space’ 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Valencia, Spain.
  • November 2004. ‘Depicting African People in Colonial Mexico’. Guest Lecture, Research Seminar, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, UK.
  • October 2004. ‘Becoming the “Self” or Somebody Else: Slave Portraiture in Imperial, Spain’. International Conference Invisible Subjects? Slave Portraiture in the Circum-Atlantic World (1660-1890), Center for Transcultural Visual Studies, Dartmouth College, USA.
  • November 2003. ‘Depicting the African Iberian in New Spain’. Conference Latin American Identities: Legacies and Possibilities, Department of Spanish, The National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland.
  • May 2003. ‘Constructing the Black Slave in Spanish Golden Age Painting’. Conference Picturing Poverty: Imagery of the Outcast and Marginal in Early Modern Europe, History of Art Department and Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen, UK.
  • April 2003. ‘Representing the Slave Trade in Early Modern Spanish Urban Space’. 29th Annual Conference of Art Historians, The Topography of Slavery: Re-Membering Metropolitan Space, Birkbeck/UCL, University of London, UK.
  • April 2003. ‘Depicting the Iberian African in New Spain'. Colloquium Mexico City 1680:The Artistic and Intellectual World of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Nottingham University, UK.
  • February 2002. 'The Lack of Representation of Black People in the Spanish Golden Age Painting'. European Cultural Studies Seminar Black Diaspora and Europe’, Dept. of Linguistic, Cultural & International Studies, Roehampton University, University of London, UK.
  • Sept. 2000. ‘Velázquez's Black Leg: Juan de Pareja and the Hardest Graft of All’.
    International Colloquium Appropriations and Representations of the Body, School of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham, UK.
  • April 2000. ‘(Lack of) Visual Representation of Black People in Spanish Golden Age Painting’. Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
  • October  1998. ‘Gaspar Becerra: A Spaniard in the workshop of Daniele da Volterrain Rome’. QMW/UCL Golden-Age and Renaissance Research Seminar, University College London, Spanish Department, University of London, UK.
  • July 1998. ‘La simbología social de los modelos femenino y masculino en la representación visual del cuerpo humano en la España del siglo XVI’. 5th Latin American Congress of History of Science and Technology, Gender, Science and Technology in Latin American History, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • October 1997. ‘Gaspar Becerra: A Spaniard in the workshop of Daniele da Volterra’. 1st International Symposium, A Splendid Isolation? Spanish Cultural Identity and the Visual Arts 1500-1700, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
 
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