Charlene Villaseñor Black - Art and Sustainability in the Early Modern Iberian World
Wednesday 3 December (Week 8), 4:30pm
Rector's Drawing Room, Exeter College, Turl Street
Charlene Villaseñor Black is Professor in the Art of the Americas at the University of Oxford and Loevner Fellow and Tutor in History of Art at Worcester College, as well as Research Professor at UCLA. Her research focuses on the art of the early modern Ibero-American world as well as contemporary Chicanx visual culture. Her publications include the books Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire (2006); (with Mari-Tere Álvarez) Renaissance Futurities: Art, Science, Invention (2019); Knowledge for Justice: An Ethnic Studies Reader (2020); and Chicano Studies Reader (2020). Her latest monograph is Transforming Saints, from New Spain to Spain (2022).