LaurenÌýBeck

Dr. Lauren Beck (Mount Allison University, Canada) is a settler scholar of Hispanic Studies who holds the Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter and the rank of Professor. She researches early modern visual culture of the Atlantic world and has published several books, including Mitji: Let's Eat! Mi'kmaq Recipes from Siknitkut (2024), Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them (2022), Illustrating el Cid, 1498-Today (2019), and Transforming the Enemy in Spanish Culture (2013), as well as edited collections, among them Abiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies (2024), Firsting in the Early Modern Transatlantic World (2019), and Visualizing the Text: From Manuscript Culture to Caricature (2017). She is the series editor of the 6-volume Cultural History of Exploration (2024). Ìý