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Portrait of Leigh Mercer wearing glasses and a dark jacket standing in front of a blue wall.

Leigh Mercer (she/her/hers)

Having completed her first book, Urbanism and Urbanity: The Spanish Bourgeois Novel and Contemporary Customs (1845-1925) (Bucknell UP) in 2013, Professor Mercer is currently finishing another book manuscript, titled An Incoherent Voyage: Spanish Cinema Pioneers, Between Technophilia

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Cinema, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cultural Studies, Hispanic Studies, Language and Literature, Public Scholarship, Spanish & Portugese, Visual Culture
Portrait of José Francisco Robles

José Francisco Robles (he/him/his)

José Francisco Robles is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Washington. He earned a B.A. in Hispanic Literature and an M.A. in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Chile, as well as a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature at El Colegio de México in 2012.

18th Century, Language and Literature, Latin America, Philosophy, Spanish & Portugese