Short biography
Diana Berruezo-Sánchez is an ICREA Research Professor at the UAB and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she held full-time positions as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Career Development Fellow of Balliol College, as well as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Modern Languages replacing the Chair of Spanish. She conducts an innovative line of research on the experiences of Black women and men, and their spaces for poetic and cultural negotiation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain. She has secured international funding through highly competitive and prestigious fellowships and grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Newberry Library, the John Fell Fund, the Leverhulme Trust, and Balliol College. In 2022, she was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to explore the cultural history of the Black African diaspora in Early Modern Spain.
