Histories of Sensibilities Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment

Isabel Burdiel is Professor of History at the Universitat de València (Spain) and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UK). She is a specialist in the political and cultural history of European liberalism. Her book Isabel II. Una biografía won the National Prize of History (Spain) in 2011. She is the author of the first critical edition in Spanish of Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein (1996).

Ester García Moscardó is Assistant Professor at the UNED in Madrid (Spain), and has been Postdoctoral Researcher in CIRGEN (ERC AdG-707815) at the Universitat de València (Spain). Her current research focuses on the construction of racial and gender imaginaries within the culture of sensibility and their reworking throughout the nineteenth century.

Elena Serrano is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Institut d'Història de la Ciència (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain). She has published on Enlightened female networks, gender and the history of science, and the history of science and emotions. Her last book is Ladies of Honor and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge and Politics in Enlightened Spain (2022).