Ana María Díaz Burgos is an assistant professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College. She specializes in early modern literary and cultural studies from a Trans-Atlantic perspective, with an emphasis on gender. Her research focuses on the intersections of legal systems, institutional practices and female subjectivities in Hispanic territories. Her work has appeared in the Colonial Latin American Historical Review, Dieciocho, and Edad moderna. Her book Tráfico de saberes: Agencia femenina, hechicería e inquisición en Cartagena de Indias 1610-1614 (forthcoming Iberoamericana-Vervuert 2020) examines urban space, social networks, and female agency in the inquisitorial trials for sorcery recorded in Cartagena de India’s first auto de fe (1614).