May 4, 2026
Anahit Manoukian, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, published an article titled, "Imperial Rivalries, Race, and the Limits of María Rosa de Gálvez's Antislavery Discourse" in Dieciocho. This paper situates María Rosa de Gálvez’s tragedy Zinda (1804) within its sociohistorical and cultural context—between the Haitian Revolution and the parliamentary debates at the Cortes of Cádiz—and argues that the play not only exposes Spanish anxieties about African Blackness, slavery, and colonialism but also anticipates the limits of liberal reform by revealing how Enlightenment ideals were constrained by racialized hierarchies and imperial authority.