Akiko Tsuchiya

Akiko Tsuchiya is Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis, with affiliations in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity. She specializes in 19th-20th century Spanish literature, gender studies, and transnational cultural networks.

Research Focus: Examines Spanish realism/naturalism, women's literary networks, slavery/antislavery in the Hispanic world, and colonial monument debates. Her work integrates postcolonial theory and public memory studies.

Publications: Recent books include Marginal Subjects: Gender and Deviance in Fin-de-siècle Spain (2011) and co-edited volumes on empire and colonialism. Her NEH-funded project explores Spanish women in antislavery movements.

Awards:

• NEH Summer Stipend for antislavery research
• Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (2017)
• MindCORE Fellowship at University of Barcelona

Leadership: Former editor of Revista de Estudios Hispánicos and past president of the International Association of Galdós Scholars.