Noemi Martin Santo

Dr. Noemí Martín Santo is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Central Connecticut State University. She earned her PhD from Boston University in 2016 in Hispanic Language and Literatures. Her work is dedicated to sixteenth and seventeenth-century Hispanic material culture from a transpacific perspective and an interdisciplinary approach to literature, history of the senses, and religious encounters. Her research explores the intersection between travel writing, history, and ethnography on the Pacific kingdoms and contact zones where the Iberian empires projected their colonial expansion. Her theoretical framework is located between cultural poetics and early modern orientalism, in particular, the rhetoric that unites the sense of wonder with the providential design of a Christian empire.