Lexie Cook

Lexie Cook is a PhD Candidate in Latin American and Iberian Cultures and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation--Aesthetics of Bad Faith: from Iberian Magic to African Fetishim--is a material and conceptual history of the problem of the fetish, that maps its refashioning and creolization from a medieval Iberian discourse of sorcery—hechicería in Spanish and feitiçaria in Portuguese—along the trade routes of the Iberian Atlantic.