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This course is envisioned as an invitation to branch out beyond the traditional archives of Hispanism, as we engage with the cultural production of ‘peripheral’ territories in the so-called Hispanic world, including regions that have recently been grouped within the category of the “Global Hispanophone.” This rubric aspires to incorporate the cultures and historical experiences of territories once bound by the Spanish Empire in North Africa, the Gulf of Guinea, and the Philippines. In this reconfiguration of our intellectual and geographic maps of Hispanic studies, we will place these regions’ pasts and presents in dialogue with other areas traditionally more central to our disciplines, while giving particular centrality to Africa. The course is thus informed by a determination to break away from the overarching Iberian/Latin American binary, an even some configurations of Atlantic Studies, and to embrace other communities, histories, experiences, and repertoires. We will ask: what might an engagement with this new archive of the Global Hispanophone entail for the broader fields, and for the scholarly practices, of Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, Iberian, or Atlantic studies today? How might engaging with one or more of the geographical areas involved –Western Sahara, Ceuta, Melilla, Morocco, Algeria, the Philippines, Equatorial Guinea and perhaps others not fully covered in this course– alter, or transform, our approach to the respective fields?