María Elvira Roca Barea (born 1966) is a Spanish academic and writer. She studied philology, and specialized in the literature of the middle ages and early modern Europe. Her research work has primarily focused on narrative strategies in different literary periods, but she became famous for her late work on the Spanish Black Legend. **Source**: [Elvira Roca Barea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira_Roca_Barea) on Wikipedia.