Lauren BeckLauren Beck is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Mount Allison University, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario, and Editor of Terrae Incognitae, the international journal devoted to the history of discovery and eploration. Her research specializations include early modern visual culture of the Spanish world, the Iberian Atlantic, and in particular book illustration and historical cartography. She is the author of Transforming the Enemy in Spanish Culture: The Conquest through the Lens of Textual and Visual Multiplicity (2013) and her recent articles have appeared in Image & Narrative and Journal of North African Studies. With Christina Ionescu, she co-curated the exhibition Mapping North America: Narratives of Discovery. Read More Read Less