Victor Sierra Matute is a scholar of early modern and colonial Hispanophone studies whose work connects material culture, sound studies, visual and performing arts, transoceanic exchange, and the history of emotions. He is the editor of Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds (Routledge, 2025) and is completing his first monograph, A Sense of Empire: Perceptual and Material Foundations of Early Modern Iberian Colonialism, a study of how sensory experience, material objects, and built environments converged to shape—and to challenge—colonial power across the early modern Hispanophone and Lusophone worlds.

Sierra Matute served on the PMLA Advisory Committee for “Spanish, pre-1800” (2020-23) and currently sits on both the executive committee of the Global Hispanophone Forum and the Program Committee of the Modern Language Association. His work has been published in journals such as Romanic Review, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Romance Studies, Latin American Research Review, Romance Quarterly, and Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies.