The Georgetown University Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Georgetown Americas Institute were pleased to invite you to a conversation with Dr. Akiko Tsuchiya. Professor Tsuchiya is the author of a book on the nineteenth-century Spanish novelist Benito Pérez Galdós and has published extensively on nineteenth-and twentieth-century Iberian literatures and cultures. Her research and teaching interests include the realist novel, women’s and gender studies, nineteenth- century women’s transnational literary and cultural networks, race and colonialism, slavery and antislavery, in the Hispanic world. Most recently, she has become engaged in public debates generated around monuments related to colonialism and slavery in the Iberian world. Her recent books include Gender and Deviance in Fin-de- siècle Spain (2011), Unsettling Colonialism: Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World (2019) and Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain (19th-21st Centuries), co-edited with Aurélie Vialette, and due out from SUNY Press in 2025. She is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled Spanish Women in the Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Movement: Transnational Networks and Exchanges.