Javier Irigoyen-García (irigoyen@illinois.edu) is Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the representation of race, ethnicity, and class difference in early modern Spain. He has published The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2013) and “Moors Dressed as Moors”: Clothing, Social Distinction, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia (University of Toronto Press, 2017). His current project, tentatively entitled Dystopias of Infamy, deals with the political value of insults as a source of collective identity in early modern Spanish imaginary.