Bio
Elisa Rizo is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Iowa State University. Her research centers on the formation of identity discourses in literature, theater, and plastic arts of Equatorial Guinea, and the African Diaspora in Latin America and in Spain. She has published essays in various journals, including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, and Spanish Cultural Studies, and well in multiple collective academic books. She has edited several collections of Equatorial Guinean literature, and has coedited academic anthologies, such as Receptions of the Classics in the African Diaspora of the Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds: Atlantis Otherwise (Lexington Books 2016) with Madeleine Henry, and Afro-Iberia (1850-1975): Enfoques teóricos y huellas africanas y magrebíes en la península ibérica(Bellaterra Edicións 2023) with Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré.