Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Beth Boyd is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University. She received her M.A. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2013. Her research focuses on the intersection of colonial frameworks and visual cultural studies in the Americas across time, with a particular focus on Mexico and its trans-Atlantic connections to early modern iconography. She is also interested in interdisciplinary approaches to how early modern cultural products are reimagined for twenty-first century audiences. Her research has been recognized by Indiana University, the Newberry Library, and the Association of Hispanic Classical Theater. Her forthcoming dissertation is “From Colonial Foundations to Post-Colonial Networks: la Virgen de Remedios, San Miguel del Milagro, and the Meme as Mexican Iconographies of Conquest.”