Publications
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities
Cormier, Michael, Park, Sarah, and Beck, Lauren. “Automatic Classification of Woodcuts and Copperplate Engravings.” 17th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) 2020, Ottawa, ON. pp. 85-92.
Beck, Lauren. “The Persistence of Early-Modern Metadata in Online Environments and the Endurance of Imperial Discourse.” Universitas Humanística 90 (2021).
Early Modern Studies
Beck, Lauren. Firsting in the Early Modern Transatlantic World. Routledge, 2019.
Beck, Lauren. “Unsettling Spanish Atlantic History: Toward a Scholarship Invested in Visual and Material Culture.” Firsting in the Early-Modern Transatlantic World, edited by Lauren Beck, Routledge, 2019, pp. 193-217.
Beck, Lauren. “Firsting: The Architecture of Decolonizing Scholarship on the Early-Modern Transatlantic World.” Firsting in the Early-Modern Transatlantic World, edited Lauren Beck, Routledge, 2019, pp. 1-22.
Beck, Lauren. “Civilizing the Pre-Modern Spanish World through the Gaze of Modernity.” Pléyade, no. 23, 2019, pp. 101-124.
Beck, Lauren. “Women’s Power and Material Exchange in Transatlantic Spain, 1550s–1650s.” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 30, no. 1, 2018, pp. 35-55.
Beck, Lauren. “When the Western Gaze Sees Wonder.” Spaces of Wonder, Wonder of Space: Encountering the Eighteenth Century through Image, Object, and Text, edited by Christina Smylitopoulos, University of Guelph, 2019, pp. 10-17.
Beck, Lauren. Illustrating el Cid, 1498-Today. McGill-Queens University Press, 2019.
Beck, Lauren. “Race and Labour in Sixteenth-Century Seville through the Prism of Accounting Books (Hijuelas) from the Reales Alcázares.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 4, 2018, pp. 1272–1297.
Beck, Lauren. “Early-Modern Place Names in Today’s Canada.” Borealia, October 2018, https://earlycanadianhistory.ca/2018/10/10/early-modern-place-names-in-todays-canada/
Beck, Lauren. “Annotation and Books in Early Modern Spanish Painting.” Visualizing the Text: From Manuscript Culture to Caricature, edited by Lauren Beck and Christina Ionescu, University of Delaware Press, 2017, pp. 71-93.
Beck, Lauren. “Visualising the Cid and His Enemies in Print: The Matamoros Effect.” Image and Narrative, vol. 17, no. 1, 2016, pp. 5-14.
Maps
Barnett, H. and L. Beck, eds. Disease and Exploration History (Terrae Incognitae). Completed issue due Summer 2024.
Beck, L. 2022. Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them. Concordia University Press.
Beck, L. ed. 2022-2023. The Social Lives of Maps [3 vols.] (Material Culture Review) vols. 92-94.
Beck, Lauren, et al. Our Names, Our Home: Report on the Town of Sackville’s Street Names and Monuments. April 2022. 56 pp
Beck, Lauren. “La fundación de pueblos españoles e indígenas en el siglo XVI,” [Indigenous and Spanish Townfounding in the Sixteenth Century] Del mundo al mapa y del mapa al mundo: Objetos, escalas e imaginarios del territorio. Memorias del 6º Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía, edited by Alejandra Vega Palma (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2017), 226-235.
Van Duzer, Chet, and Lauren Beck Canada before Confederation: Maps from the Exhibition. Vernon Press, 2017.
Beck, L., ed. 2016. Women in the History of Cartography, Discovery, and Exploration (Terrae Incognitae) 48.1.
Beck, L. and C. Ionescu. 2015. Mapping North America: Early Modern Narratives of Discovery and Exploration in the Davidson Collection. Mount Allison University.
Beck, L. and C. Ionescu, eds. 2015. Small Communities (Journal of New Brunswick Studies) 6.1.
Race, Culture, and Gender
Augustine, M. and L. Beck. 2024. Mitji: Let’s Eat. Mi'kmaq Recipes from Sikniktuk. Nimbus Press.
Beck, L. 2024. “Spanishness and Race in North American Monumental Architecture,” /Arts/ 13, 1-21.
Beck, L. 2021. “Resistance, Protest, and Knowledge: Indigenous Appropriation of Medievalism in Ibero and Latin America,” Re-presentación de identidades, resistencia y transformación en el Sur globalizado [Special Issue]. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 46.1, 57-80.
Beck, L. 2021. “Euro-Settler Place Naming Practices for North America through a Gendered and Racialized Lens,” Terrae Incognitae 53.1, 5-25.
Beck, L., G. Chacón, and J. Sánchez, eds. 2024. Abiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies. Amherst College Press.
Beck, Lauren. “Race.” Encyclopedia of The Atlantic World, 1400-1900: Europe, Africa, and the Americas in An Age of Exploration, Trade, and Empires, edited by David Head, ABC-Clio, 2017,pp. 543-546.
Beck, Lauren. “Pocahontas, Woman of Two Legacies: The True Story.” Historia National Geographic 203 (2020), 1-14.
Beck, L. and A. Fernández, eds. 2021. Re-Presenting Identities, Resistance and Transformation in the Globalized South: A Multidisciplinary Collective Approach to Decolonization (Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos) 46.1, pp. 1-189.
Beck, L. 2023. “Beads and Ceremony: The Collision of Pan-American, European, African, and Asian Bead Networks in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Empire,” Religion 14, 1-19.
Beck, Lauren. “16th Century Spanish Castles, Slavery and Accounting: Interview with Lauren Beck.” [Podcast] Accounting Exposed, February 2020.
Beck, Lauren. “When the Western Gaze Sees Wonder.” In Spaces of Wonder, Wonder of Space: Encountering the Eighteenth Century through Image, Object, and Text, ed. C. Smylitopoulos. University of Guelph, 2019, 10-17.
Beck, L. and A. Fernández. 2021. “Introduction to Resistance and Transformation in the Globalized South: A Collective Approach to Decolonization,” Re-presentación de identidades, resistencia y transformación en el Sur globalizado [Special Issue]. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 46.1, 1-12.
Fernández, Ana M. & Walescka Pino Ojeda. “La performance ‘Un violador en tu camino’ de LASTESIS como denuncia al femigenocidio: articulaciones entre los casos chileno, argentino y diáspora latinoamericana en Auckland (Nueva Zelanda),” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 47.3 (Nov. 2022): published online 14 Sept. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2022.2110771
Fernández, Ana M. “Minori'ethage Memories and Deschooling Society in Verónico Cruz. La deuda interna (Argentina, 1988): A Decolonial Tribute to the Qulla Culture of Jujuy,” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 28.1 (Feb. 2022): 80-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087329
Fernández, Ana M. “A Flipped Learning Experience on Decoloniality,” Hispania. Johns Hopkins University Press, 103.2 (June 2020): 161-166. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27025754.
Fernández, Ana M. “Una lectura sociocrítica sobre minoriédad y resemantización docente en Shunko de Lautaro Murúa (Argentina, 1960),” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 26.1 (2020): 18-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2020.1781920
Fernández, Ana M., ed. Echoing Women’s Voices in Latin American and Canadian Studies: A Sociocritical Perceptive. Ottawa Hispanic Studies, no. 29, 2020.
Fernández, Ana M., ed. An Open Dialogue on Democracy and Citizenship Empowerment in the Latin American Context: Our Voices. Ottawa Hispanic Studies, no. 28, 2019.
Abanto, Luis (U Ottawa) & Ana M. Fernández, eds. Reflecting on Identities and Cultural Frameworks in a Globalized World. Ottawa Hispanic Studies, no. 27, 2018.
Visual Culture/Image Theory
Beck, L. and A. Robin, eds. 2021. Latin American Art, Visual and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century (/Arts/) 10.4.
Visualizing the Text: From Manuscript Culture to Caricature, edited by Lauren Beck and Christina Ionescu, University of Delaware Press, 2017.
Beck, L. 2013. Transforming the Enemy in Spanish Culture: The Conquest through the Lens of Visual and Textual Multiplicity. Cambria Press.
Beck, L. 2023. “Material Ways of Looking: A Methodological Proposal for Visual and Material Culture Studies,” Material Culture Review 96, 29-46.