Cornesha Tweede

Cornesha Tweede is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Arizona State University (ASU), affiliated with the School of International Letters and Cultures. Previously, she held a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at ASU. Her research focuses on race, gender, and Africa’s role in early modern cultural studies, particularly addressing suppressed narratives of Blackness in Iberian Peninsula scholarship. She is co-editing the forthcoming book Iberia Negra: Textos para otra historia de la diáspora africana (siglos XVI y XVII) (Routledge, 2024) and is currently preparing her first monograph on literary depictions of Black African women in early modern Spain and Portugal.

• Education:
• Ph.D. in Romance Languages (African Studies specialization), University of Oregon
• M.A., University of Central Arkansas
• B.A., Oral Roberts University

Her research interests bridge multiple disciplines, including Africana Studies, Black Feminisms, and material/visual studies. She teaches courses such as Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Old and New Spain: Culture and Civilization. Her work challenges canonical narratives by centering African diasporic experiences in early modern Iberian contexts.