Dr Laura Fernández-González

I write on architecture, cities & of the Iberian empires. Arch&Empire: www.psupress.org/books/titles... Arch&Ethnicity: doi.org/10.1525/jsah... Space: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14774658... Ritual, here: www.routledge.com/Festival-Cul... & latest, here: www.routledge.com/Public-Ritua...

Shocked & astounded to have 60K followers. Brief intro for the new crowd: I am a historian of architecture, cities &the arts of the Iberian empires,1500-1800. I've researched in & about Goa, Peru, Cuba, Spain & Portugal. I love travelling, reading, and writing. I'm owned by my two-year-old.

The gorgeous patio at the Casa de Pilatos in Seville, with the Carrara marble fountain at the centre topped with an ancient Roman bust of Janus; from the Aprile workshop in Genoa. I took this footage of the palace on a spring day a few years back.

The gorgeous patio at the Casa de Pilatos in Seville, with the Carrara marble fountain at the centre topped with an ancient Roman bust of Janus; from the Aprile workshop in Genoa. I took this footage of the palace on a spring day a few years back.

Photos of two of the Cloisters of the Convent of San Francisco in Cusco. Originally, the convent had four cloisters of which three survive. On the left hand side the ‘Museum’ cloister and on the right a sneak pic into the Novitiate.

Love this line from the key on this painting of the Plaza of Lima. 'Margaritas nardos son' seems to be the start of a song or a stanza. A Margarita de Vara or Vara de San José is a Nardo. My aunt used to bring them as a gift to my parents. From this painting: ceres.mcu.es/pages/Result...

Love this line from the key on this painting of the Plaza of Lima. 'Margaritas nardos son' seems to be the start of a song or a stanza. A Margarita de Vara or Vara de San José is a Nardo. My aunt used to bring them as a gift to my parents. From this painting: ceres.mcu.es/pages/Result...

Photos of two of the Cloisters of the Convent of San Francisco in Cusco. Originally, the convent had four cloisters of which three survive. On the left hand side the ‘Museum’ cloister and on the right a sneak pic into the Novitiate.

1/2 Quiet morning writing about Lima, momentarily interrupted by a rabbit hole. A bas-relief chiselled by Giovanni Bellini (also known as Juan Antonio de Padua, about whom little is known) of the Council of the Indies, made in 1748 for the new royal palace in Madrid.

'Upon learning of the prize, according to her agent, Nicole Aragi, Carson said, “Yikes.”'

This was my reaction too and I don't even know whether the "we" is humanists, women, people with the ability to read, Canadians, fans of Sappho, fans of Emily Dickinson, translators, classicists, or people who appreciate the feelings of sad red monsters. Either way, yes

Anne Carson’s ‘The Glass Essay’ poem about family and grief. She is a Princesa de Asturias Priz winner and now also a Nobel Prize. A poet and a scholar; how lovely, congratulations www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48636/...

Anne Carson’s ‘The Glass Essay’ poem about family and grief. She is a Princesa de Asturias Priz winner and now also a Nobel Prize. A poet and a scholar; how lovely, congratulations www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48636/...

Corrections to the Index submitted now. Excited to see this book in my hands very soon! www.routledge.com/Public-Ritua...

JOB: Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art History, College Park https://arthist.net/archive/54506

Corrections to the Index submitted now. Excited to see this book in my hands very soon! www.routledge.com/Public-Ritua...

ICYMI: my new podcast series, Challenging Histories, in collaboration with @histfest.bsky.social starts on Monday. Episode one is ‘Food and Colonialism’ with the brilliant Dr Peggy Brunache. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

DEADLINE COMING UP! Don’t forget to send your abstracts in by this Friday 25 September! It’s going to be a brilliant gathering, you don’t want to be suffering all the FOMO in July! #earlymodern #skystorians

This is such amazing news! Thank you @srsrensoc.bsky.social and many thanks to the judges for their hard work on this prize, and thank you for writing such a generous citation about the book. Many congratulations to fellow shortlisted authors. What a stellar line up! @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social

For the last nine months it's been my pleasure & privilege to be the editor of Renaissance Studies, and I think we're well overdue a romp through some fantastic articles we've published this year. See below for some of the finest new research in the interdisciplinary study of the Renaissance! 👇

New Book Alert! The Inquisition's Gambit Making Wealth and Race in Cartagena de Indias By Dr. Ana María Silva Campo Can't wait to read it! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 www.pennpress.org/978151283002...

Job Opportunity! Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice networks.h-net.org/jobs/70319/b...

We're hiring in the long eighteenth century at LSU. Please spread the word and let me know if you have any questions. It's a wonderful department to work in! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...

And there is much more to say in my book, The Merchant Houses of Mocha, which covers the 17th and 18th C heyday of that port city uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

☕ For those following recent developments in the Red Sea @nytimes.com takes us back further in time. I got to talk about why Mokha is and is not really a coffee port and why these topics are so vital to understanding the world that we live in today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/w...

Extremely excited to announce an article co-authored by myself and Aaron Hyman on the visual and material cultures of Dutch piracy in the early modern Caribbean is now out in Renaissance quarterly @rsaorg.bsky.social , and open access! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Chair of Art History at Oxford advert is now live, and the important bit is this: "We welcome applications from candidates with expertise in any area of the History of Art". You've got till October 19 to apply or tell somebody else to. A wonderful job, go for it. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Lovely to see that the roundtable article that I edited for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians entitled, 'Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World, ca. 1400-1800', have been made open access. #historians doi.org/10.1525/jsah...

A plug for my brilliant colleague & friend Adrian Anagnost’s new book for anyone teaching / thinking about globalization, politics & contemporary art exhibitions & biennials. To tempt you: the conclusion title is ‘The 1990s Called They Want Their Politics Back’ 🔥🔥🔥 anthempress.com/books/de-glo...

Job Opportunity! Isaac Newton Trust and Sir John Plumb Academic Career Development Fellowship in Latin American History (Fixed Term) University of Cambridge - Faculty of History www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DST509/i...

The roundtable article I edited for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians is now among the most read articles 🥳 You can read ‘Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World’ in the link below I also authored one essay in ‘Constructing Race and Architecture’ also listed 👇

The roundtable article I edited for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians is now among the most read articles 🥳 You can read ‘Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World’ in the link below I also authored one essay in ‘Constructing Race and Architecture’ also listed 👇

Congratulations to our #SRSlyGood Book Prize 2026 shortlist: @jwscolley.bsky.social, Colby Gordon, Chloe Ireton, Jack Hartnell, & Tiffany Jo Werth! 🎊🎊🎊💫💫💫👏👏👏💫💫💫 🥳🥳🥳💫💫💫👏👏👏💫💫💫🎊🎊🎊 #Skystorians #EarlyModern rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...

REF2021 obsessed about interdisciplinary outputs; REF2029 has shifted to a fixation with non-traditional outputs. Meanwhile, the damning data from REF2021 re Black researchers is persistently ignored: 2021.ref.ac.uk/publications...

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technology is incredible

Chatting things Ming on The Medieval Podcast with Danièle Cybulskie - thanks to her for the invite and the thoughtful questions #skystorians www.medievalpodcast.com/episodes/the...