Alejandro Martínez’s article titled “Contiendas De Archivo: Sobre la reinvención de Roberto Bolaño” was published in the academic journal Perífrasis. Revista de Literatura, Teoría y Crítica. The article is featured in a dossier edited by Professor Javier Guerrero.
View the full article on the Perífrasis. Revista de Literatura, Teoría y Crítica website.
Christina Lee, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Cristina Martinez-Juan, research fellow of Philippine Studies at SOAS University of London, have recently been named recipients of a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
For her senior thesis, Anne Elizabeth Sidamon-Eristoff ’20 designed a collaborative project between the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute to study the impact of detention at the United States–Mexico border, parent-child separation on children’s mental health, and to determine whether pre-immigration factors exacerbated this effect. Sidamon-Eristoff was advised by Professor Javier Guerrero, Professor Catherine Peña, and also brought in Dr.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to offer Princeton in Argentina, Princeton in Portugal, and Princeton in Spain in Summer 2022. Summer programs are exclusively for Princeton University students.
On Thursday, November 11, Lizabel Mónica successfully defended her dissertation titled "Literatura Por Otros Medios: Tecnología Digital y Campo Literario en la Cuba Contemporánea."
Lizabel plans to work on a book based on her dissertation as well as other research and creative endeavors: "I also have a couple of articles in mind from the research that did not make it to the dissertation: the impact of digital technology in the fields of Cuban music and visual arts."
Congratulations!
The Academic Managers Group (AMG) has named SPO Department Manager Karen González as the recipient of the 2021 AMG Leadership Award.
This award is in recognition of Karen’s outstanding leadership, excellence in management and her steadfast belief in the continuing education of academic managers.
SPO graduate alum Miguel Dominguez has been named as a teaching fellow in Latin American Studies at Durham University's (UK) School of Modern Languages and Cultures for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Miguel completed his dissertation titled "Esquirlas de la vanguardia: Juan García Ponce y la literatura como supervivencia en el México del desarrollismo" earlier this year.
Congratulations!
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to welcome Juliana Griffin, undergraduate administrator and new lecturers, Gabriela Díaz-Dávalos, César Romero Fernández, Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez and Amina Shabani.
On August 23, Charlie Hankin successfully defended his dissertation titled "Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in Brazil, Cuba and Haiti."
Charlie with be joining the faculty at Colby College as a visiting assistant professor of Spanish on a two-year appointment.
"Among other things, it will allow me to teach an exciting course I've designed on the relationship between orality, music, and literature in Latin America," Charlie said.
Congratulations!
