Silvia Bermúdez

Spanish and Portuguese

Specialization

Silvia Bermúdez is Professor of Literature and Iberian Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Her current scholarship centers on Iberian feminisms, the cultural history of Spanish women in medicine, Migration and Mediterranean Studies. Her recent publications include  Rocking the Boat: Migration and Race in Contemporary Spanish Music (University of Toronto Press, 2018).  She is co-editor of A New History of Iberian Feminisms (University of Toronto Press, 2018) with Roberta Johnson; and Cartographies of Madrid: Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of the Global South and Global North (Vanderbilt University Press, 2019) with Anthony L. Geist.