Notes on Contributors
Christopher Joby
obtained his Ph.D. from Durham University in 2006. He is a Research Associate at SOAS, University of London and an Honorary Research Fellow and Associate Tutor at the School of History and Art History, University of East Anglia. His research focuses on the intersection of the Dutch language and culture and other languages and cultures in a historical context. His books include The Multilingualism of Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687) (Amsterdam University Press, 2014); The Dutch Language in Britain (1550–1702) (Brill, 2015); The Dutch Language in Japan (1600–1900) (Brill, 2020); John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch Literary Identity in the Seventeenth Century (D.S. Brewer, 2022); and Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan (Brill, 2025).
Dr. Filip A.A. Buyse
obtained a MSc an MA in Philosophy, and a DEA in Philosophy of Science before receiving his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University. His main interests include ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, and the history and philosophy of early science. Dr. Buyse has been awarded research fellowships at the HAPP Centre of Oxford University, the Descartes Centre of Utrecht University, and the Vossius Centre in Amsterdam. He has written several papers on different aspects of the work of Spinoza, Galileo, Descartes, Hobbes, and Boyle. He was also the editor of a special issue of the Intellectual History Review on Spinoza and Galileo. Currently, he is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR), based at the Domus Comeliana in Pisa. He also serves as the chair of the History and Philosophy section of the Royal Flemish Chemical Society.
Noelia Pousada-Lobeira
is currently a Ph.D. student in the doctoral program in Translation and Paratranslation at the University of Vigo. A professional translator and proofreader, she is also a member of the Literary and Cultural Studies and Translation and Interpretation research group BiFeGa. Her research, which she has presented at several international conferences, revolves around expressions of authority in the paratextual production of early modern women translators writing in Spanish, Italian, French, and English in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Álvaro Garrote Pascual
holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and specializes in Medieval and early modern Spain and Middle Eastern Studies. His research focuses on the cultural production of the Muslim communities of the Iberian Peninsula and the interaction of their literary production with other religious traditions present in what is now Spain. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William & Mary.
Erin Alice Cowling
is an Associate Professor at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada. Her research focus is on modern adaptations of early modern Spanish texts, particularly as they can speak to twenty-first-century issues. She is a co-editor of the volume Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater (University of Toronto Press) and the critical edition of El príncipe inocente by Lope de Vega (Agilice). Her book Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature is available from University of Toronto Press (2021); she has most recently published articles with Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Romance Quarterly, and eHumanista/Cervantes.
Tania de Miguel Magro
is a Professor at West Virginia University. Her research focuses on early modern Spanish theater, with a particular emphasis on short genres and gender issues. She is the author of the monograph Staging Violence: Gender and Social Control in Jácaras and Entremeses (Routledge) and co-editor of the volume Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater (University of Toronto Press). She has prepared critical editions of El príncipe inocente by Lope de Vega (Agilice), La misma conciencia acusa (Reichenberger) and Los engaños de un engaño (Stockcero) both by Agustín Moreto, as well as student editions of Cuentos by Horacio Quiroga (Cervantes&Co) and Naufragios by Cabeza de Vaca (Cervantes&Co).
Angelo Cattaneo
is a Senior Researcher for the C.N.R. (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome) and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florence. He is currently the P.I. of the PRIN 2022 project Mapping and Translating Spaces, Cultures and Languages (MAT) funded by the European Union NextGenerationEU (2023–2025). In 2024, he was a Visiting Professor at the MacMillan Center at Yale University. His research spans the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries and revolves around two main topics: the cultural construction of space (cosmography, cartography, and travel literature) and the history of cultural encounters (missionary practices, trade, mapping, and linguistics) at the interface of the Portuguese Empire from a global perspective. He is the author of Fra Mauro’s Mappa mundi and Fifteenth-Century Venice (Brepols, 2011) and Tradurre il mondo. Le missioni, il portoghese e nuovi spazi di lingue connesse nella prima età moderna (Bulzoni, 2022). He has edited the Bulletin of Portuguese / Japanese Studies journal issue Shores of Matteo Ricci (2018), the volumes Shores of Vespucci (Peter Lang, 2018), Interactions between Rivals. The Christian Mission and Buddhist Sects in Japan (c.1549–c.1647) (Peter Lang, 2021), and Language Dynamics in the Early Modern World (Routledge, 2022).
Weiao Xing
obtained his Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge in 2023. He was a postdoctoral affiliate at the Faculty of History, Cambridge. He is currently a visiting postdoctoral fellow, funded by the Global Encounters Platform, at the Institute of Modern History, University of Tübingen. His doctoral thesis focuses on languages and translation in English-Indigenous and French-Indigenous encounters in the seventeenth century. He also works on language learning, historical narratives, and print culture in the early modern transatlantic milieu. Alongside his studies in history, he received training in translation studies, historical sociolinguistics, and the liberal arts. He contributes as a writer and editor for public history blogs and has been a freelance English-Chinese translator.
Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo
obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is an Assistant Professor at Villanova University. He specializes in early modern and nineteenth-century Latin American and Iberian studies, with a focus on environmental humanities, the history of transatlantic slavery, and colonial and post-colonial studies. His publications cover a diverse array of interdisciplinary topics, exploring bottom-up perspectives, cultural interactions, and environmental conflicts in zones of contact across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the transatlantic world. He is currently a visiting postdoctoral researcher in the Department of History at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he is developing a project on the history of slave insurrections in nineteenth-century Cuba.
Marijana Mišević
obtained her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2022. She works on the social and cultural history of the early modern Ottoman Empire and the Slavic world, with a special focus on historical language and literacy ideologies. Before beginning her graduate work at Harvard University, she earned her M.A. degree in Comparative History: Medieval Studies at the Central European University, a Magister Degree in Linguistics from the University of Belgrade, and a B.A. in Oriental Philology from the University of Belgrade. She is currently affiliated with the Institute of History in Belgrade.