Larissa Brewer-García received her PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. Upon completing her doctorate, she accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Race and Ethnicity Studies with Princeton University's Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Her research and teaching interests include colonial Latin American texts, Caribbean and Andean literature, critical race studies, and translation. Her dissertation “Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada” examined the influence of black interpreters in the creation and circulation of notions of blackness in texts from late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish America.