Diego Baena received his PhD. from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University in 2020. He also holds an MA from Princeton and a BA in History and Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago. His doctoral dissertation (La literatura y sus pueblos) explores the intersection between popular literacy, various forms of popular media, censorship, and dissident political cultures in nineteenth-century Spain. While one part of Dr. Baena’s research has focused on representations of urban and transatlantic migration and working-class caring economies in the works of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Rosalía de Castro, his more recent interests include: the commemoration of republican and socialist political cultures over time; the history of Spanish feminisms; the relationship between Cuban, Spanish, and Puerto Rican republicanism and the international abolitionist movement; representations of class, race, and revolution in the Spanish-speaking Avant-Garde (with special focus on the works of Federico García Lorca, Langston Hughes, and Luis Buñuel).