Virtual Folger Salon with Charmaine Cordero, Esteban Crespo, and Toby Yuen-Gen Liang

Charmaine Cordero is an Early Modern Studies doctoral candidate at Claremont Graduate University. Their dissertation focuses on the projection of racial anxieties in Shakespeare in Borderlands adaptations. They are an assistant adjunct professor at Pasadena City College and a tenured high school English teacher.

Esteban Crespo is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Boston University. A Transatlantic Literature and Cultures scholar, his research and teaching primarily focuses on gender and sexuality in the Early Modern Iberian worlds in relation to the history of the book, contemporary critical thought, and colonial studies. His research aims to strengthen the position of Iberian and Colonial Latin American Studies as fundamental interlocutors for Lesbian, Trans, Queer, and Gay Studies.

Toby Yuen-Gen Liang (Ph.D. Princeton University) is an associate research professor at the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s national academy of sciences. He was previously associate professor at National Taiwan University and at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. Liang specializes on Spanish-Mediterranean history and currently researches northern Africa as a subject of European visual media during the Age of Exploration from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. He is the author of Family and Empire: The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish Realm (University of Pennsylvania Press) and the co-editor of three collections of essays (Routledge and Brill).