Itzea Goikolea-Amiano

Itzea is a postdoctoral researcher at SOASU niversity of London on the ERC-funded project MULOSIGE. Her PhD dissertation (The Hispano-Moroccan Re-Encounter: Colonialism, Mimesis, and Power in the Spanish War on Tetouan and its Occupation [1859-62], EUI-Florence 2017) a micro-historical account of one of the founding moments of Spanish modern colonialism in Morocco. As a MULOSIGE researcher, Itzea has worked on Moroccan and Maghrebi literary history – and has surveyed, among others, the bilingual colonial journals Al-Motamid and Ketama. She has also worked on Spanish women converts to Islam and is currently delving into a new project on race and slavery in Maghrebi literatures and history. Her forthcoming work includes 

“The Poetics and Politics of Solidarity: Barg el-Lil (1961) and Afrotopia.” In The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form, ed. by F. Orsini, N. Srivastava and L. Zecchini. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers; and 

” سياسات نفوذ الأندلس ودائرية التاريخ في الثقافة المغربية إبان الاستعمار: مجلتا ‘المعتمد’ و’كتامة’“

(English translation: “Al-Andalus in Spanish-Ruled Morocco: Politics of Prestige and Circularity of History in Moroccan Colonial Culture: The Journals ‘al-Motamid’ and ‘Ketama’”), Alif: A Journal of Comparative Poetics 41.