Thenesoya V. Martín De la Nuez is a scholar of Modern and Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Studies and the Global Hispanophone, with a focus on literature and cultural production from Equatorial Guinea, and postcolonial insular spaces (Caribbean-Canary Islands-Philippines). She teaches questions of race and identity in contemporary Spain, transoceanic and insular studies. She is working on her book manuscript De-centering Hispanism. African and Asian Hispanophone Peripheries into Focus, a comparative monograph work that aims to intersect traditionally neglected Hispanophone Equatoguinean and Filipino literature and cultural history to challenge the symbolic continuation of the Spanish empire.