Visiting Professor Marília Librandi created a website with the undergraduate students of her seminar “Indigenous Brazil.” The website features short essays written in Portuguese by the students on various indigenous groups, info and images from guest lecturers who visited the seminar, poems etc.
View the website here.
Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ’13 recently defended her dissertation titled "Toward a New Translation of Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas” at Brown University for her Ph.D. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. In addition to her dissertation, Flora has continued to work as a professional translator as well as an independent researcher in Rio.
Kate Reed ’19, was recently awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Reed is a Spanish certificate student as well as an undergraduate course assistant with the department.
At Oxford, Reed plans to pursue the M.Phil. in Development Studies.
To read more, click here.
Sophia Nuñez has successfully defended her dissertation “Bodies and Books in the Early Modern Hispanic World.”
Mary Hui's piece titled "Voices: A Road Map" was recently featured in Princeton Alumni Weekly. Hui reflects on how the thesis has helped shape thinking in the post-Princeton life.
Click here to read.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to announce that we have two Undergraduate Course Assistants: Kate Reed (Spanish and Portuguese) and Kathryn Phipps (Spanish). Language tutoring sessions will begin the week of September 24th.
The new website for Brazil LAB has just been launched: https://brazillab.princeton.edu
Co-directed by Professors João Biehl and Pedro Meira Monteiro, the Brazil LAB (Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies) is a multi-disciplinary research and teaching hub for exploring the country’s history, politics and culture, along with its regional significance and international connections.
Brazil-related events in the fall, graduate and undergraduate courses, as well as the new Global Seminar “Becoming Brazil” can already be seen on the website.
SPO alum Lara Norgaard’17, graduate student Ingrid Brioso Rieumont, and visiting student Márcia de Castro de Borges interviewed Brazilian writer Ricardo Lísias on his own work, the relation between ethics and aesthetics, the turbulence that hit Brazil in 2016, Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, and the limitation of artistic freedom in Brazil. Lísias’ visit to Princeton in 2016 was part of the seminar “The Subject in Disguise,” taught by professors Pedro Meira Monteiro and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Featured in Fórum de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea (v. 10 n. 19, 2018).
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Ph.D. is a cultural and social anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research with Santería practitioners in Cuba and the United States, and police officers and Black and Brown communities affected by police violence in the United States. Her research and teaching span the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and Afro-Latinx circulations. Dr.
