Lauren Beck (Mount Allison University, Canada) is professor of Visual and Material Culture Studies and the Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter. She researches visual culture and place identity. Her recent books include Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them (2022), Illustrating el Cid, 1498-Today (2019) and Transforming the Enemy in Spanish Culture (2013), as well as edited collections, among them Abiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies (2024). She is the series editor of the six-volume Cultural History of Exploration (2024).