Akiko Tsuchiya

Professor Akiko Tsuchiya holds a joint appointment as Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis, with affiliations in the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She earned her PhD in Spanish Literature from Cornell University. Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Iberian literatures, gender studies, transnational cultural networks, and the legacies of slavery and colonialism in the Hispanic world.

Education: PhD in Spanish Literature, Cornell University.

Research Interests: Professor Tsuchiya’s work examines Spanish realism/naturalism, women’s transnational literary networks, antislavery movements, postcolonial theory, and the intersection of race/gender in colonial contexts. She has published Marginal Subjects (2011), Empire’s End (2016), and Unsettling Colonialism (2019), with a forthcoming monograph on Spanish women’s antislavery networks. Her current project, Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain, explores how cultural forms confront colonial pasts.

Grants & Awards: NEH Summer Stipend (2019), Washington University Faculty Fellowships (2007, 2019), and two mentoring awards from the Graduate Student Senate. Research has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and SUNY Press.

Collaborations: Co-Principal Investigator on a transnational slavery research project, collaborating with scholars at CSIC (Madrid) and the University of Barcelona. Recent visiting scholar at ADHUC (Barcelona).

Leadership: Former co-editor of Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, President of the International Association of Galdós Scholars (2015–17), and current MLA Delegate Assembly member.