Erica Feild-Marchello - ‘To Govern Many Other Kingdoms’: Ignacio de las Casas on Arabic as a Tool for the Spanish Empire

Erica Feild-Marchello is the Sir John Elliott Fellow in Early Modern Spanish Studies at Exeter College. She is a scholar of the literatures and cultures of early modern Iberian worlds. Her research interests are in religion, religious minorities, conversion, translation, and race from Spain to the Americas, to Southeast Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her publications include ‘Hearing Alcuzcuz: Word Play and the Production of Uncertainty in Amar después de la muerte,’ in Soundscapes of the Early Modern Iberian Empires, forthcoming with Routledge.