Josiah Blackmore is a scholar of Iberian literature and culture, with a focus on medieval and early modern Portuguese writing. He is the author of Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire(University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and editor of Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (Duke University Press, 1999).