About Diana Arbaiza

Diana Arbaiza specializes on the relation between coloniality, nationalism and literature in modern Spain, focusing on the intersections between cultural and economic projects, the ideologies of modernity and the representations of gender and race. While she previously studied Hispanism and the Spanish relationship with Latin America, she currently works on Spanish cultural representations of Equatorial Guinea and the role that colonialism in Africa played in Spanish public debates during the 19th and 20th centuries. At the University of Antwerp she offers courses on literatures in Spanish from the 18th to the 21st Century, modernity and coloniality, feminism and gender in contemporary Spain.