Fall 2022 Guest Speaker Series, POR 262 “Sounds and Stories: Voices in Portuguese”
On April 13th POR 262 “Sounds and Stories: Voices in Portuguese” welcomed Dr. Carla Martin, its final guest speaker, in a semester-long series dedicated to the short stories, artistic movements and musical traditions from or inflected by the African continent.
This fall, SPA 250 will offer a trip to Puerto Rico over Fall Break.
Students who are eligible and interested in enrolling in the course should check for more details on the Course offerings webpage.
View Luke Chan's '24 video from the Fall 2022 trip to Puerto Rico on YouTube.
On Friday, January 28, Ingrid Brioso Rieumont successfully defended her dissertation titled “Representaciones póstumas en Cuba y Brasil, 1870-1910.”
The special volume, País Portátil: Contemporary Venezuelan Literature and Arts, was curated and edited by Professor Javier Guerrero and was recently published by Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas.
Access the full volume via Taylor & Francis Online.
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!
