Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile

Rebecca De Souza, Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Stirling

Rebecca De Souza is a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Stirling. She was previously a Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and holds a PhD in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. Rebecca’s work has appeared in La corónica, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and postmedieval, amongst other venues. Her research investigates how memories of the premodern era are instrumentalised at particular historical moments across the Hispanophone world, from Iberia to Latin America, the Sephardic diaspora, and the Philippines.