Rubén Bracero Salvat is a predoctoral researcher and FPU fellow at the Department of Spanish of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His doctoral thesis, inscribed within the BADEMS project, studies racial constructions in early modern Iberian performative texts.

He read Hispanic Studies at the University of Barcelona, where he received the 2022-2023 Extraordinary End-of-Degree Award. In 2024, with funding from Fundació Universitària Agustí Pedro i Pons, he earned a Master of Studies in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford, specialising in Spanish and Portuguese. His master’s dissertation looked at the performativity of Iberian villancicos de negros and was awarded the prize for the best dissertation in the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese at Oxford. He is currently also a member of the research project The Making of Blackness, where he coordinates the 2024-2025 seminar series.

In 2024 he digitalised and published in Taylor Editions a collection of villancicos held by the Bodleian Library.