Emily Floyd - Imagining Rome from Quito: The Global Vision of an Eighteenth-Century Jesuit in South America

Emily C. Floyd is Lecturer in Visual Culture and Art before 1700 at University College London. Her investigation explores material cultures of religion in the colonial and pre-Columbian Americas, particularly religious print culture in South America. She has published on Inca metalwork, silversmith-engravers in colonial Lima, and religion and digital humanities. Her recent publications include the article ‘The Word as Object in Colonial Spanish South America: Juan María de Guevara y Cantos’s Corona de la Divinissima María (Lima, 1644’, Material Religion 17, 2 (2021). 

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