Elizabeth Blakemore (she) is a postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research as part of BADEMS focuses on the role of Afro-Hispanic confraternities as a space for cultural production, transcultural interactions, identity and community building, and the preservation of African religious and cultural practices.

She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2024, where she also worked as a tutor in Hispanic Language and Cultures for the past four years. Her research explores the racialisation of religion and cultural minorities, specialising in the representation of the moriscos in the Spanish literary imaginary.

She has two upcoming publications based on her research on the characterisation of the moriscos in the Alpujarras chronicles, Lope de Vega’s drama, and Cervantes’s prose fiction.