Raul Marrero-Fente Bio

Raúl Marrero-Fente is Professor of Spanish and Law at the University of Minnesota. His research and teaching focuses on Colonial Latin America, early modern trans-Atlantic studies, and human rights. He is the author and editor of Trayectorias globales: estudios coloniales en el mundo hispánico (Iberoamericana/Vervuert: 2013); Coloniality, Religion and the Law in the Early Iberian World, a co-edited volume with Santa Arias (Vanderbilt University Press: forthcoming, 2013); Espejo de paciencia (2010); Bodies, Texts, and Ghosts. Writing on Literature and Law in Colonial Latin America (2010); Human Rights in Latin American and Iberian Cultures (2009), a co-edited volume with Ana Forcinito and Kelly McDonough; Epic, Empire and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre de Balboa’s Espejo de Paciencia (2008); Poéticas de la restitución. Literatura y cultura en Hispanoamérica colonial (2005); Perspectivas transatlánticas. Estudios coloniales hispanoamericanos (2004); Playas del árbol: Una visión trasatlántica de las literaturas hispánicas (2002); La poética de la ley en las Capitulaciones de Santa Fe (2000); and Al margen de la tradición: Relaciones entre la literatura colonial y peninsular de los siglos XV, XVI, y XVII (1999).  He is currently working on a book entitled A Global History of Imperialism and Colonialism in the Iberian World, 1400-1600.