Persephone Braham
Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Iberian Studies
University of Delaware
209 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
I grew up in West Philadelphia and have studied/researched/traveled in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, PerĆŗ, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Spain, and Mexico. Before coming to UD I taught at Columbia and UPenn. My research is on monsters and monstrosity in Latin America, and I also write and teach about Latin American film, urban space and power, gender and sexuality, detective fiction, and the Caribbean. My book From Amazons to Zombies was described as "An accessible and super generative study of how monstrosityāincluding the cannibalāwas a trope used by European colonizers because they were idiots" āJoseph Pierce.
Degrees
PhD (Spanish), University of Pennsylvania
BA (Political Science), Barnard College, Columbia Universityāā
Publications
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From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America
African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States
Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons. Detective Fiction in Latin America
Selected book chapters and articles:
- Afrofuturismo, The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms, ed. Guillermina de Ferrari and Mariano Siskind. Routledge, 2021
- Senderos que se bifurcan: de Chesterton a Borges, Grupo Sur, peronismo y gƩnero policial, ed. Gerardo Pignatiello and RomƔn Setton. Editorial Libros Medio Siglo, 2021
- El Hambre Nueva: Puerto Rico en el capitalismo tardĆo, Contracorriente: Mutantes y monstruos, ed. MarĆa del Carmen CaƱa JimĆ©nez. UNC Press, 2020.
- Elpidio ValdƩs, A Cuban Cinema Companion, 2019
- Borges, Latin American Detective Fiction and the City, 221B, July 2019
- Song of the Sirenas: Mermaids in Latin America and the Caribbean, Scaled for Success: The Internationalisation of the Mermaid. Ed. Philip Hayward. Indiana, 2018
- Listening to the Amazons, Listening to Our Monsters, special issue of LISTENING vol. 52 no. 3 (Fall 2017)
- Pedro Cabiya's Caribbean Grotesque, Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature), 2017
- True Crime, Crime Fiction and Journalism in Mexico, Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction, ed. David Schmid and Andrew Pepper. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.ā
Courses Taught
Sex and Gender in Latin America
Amazons to Zombies ā Monsters in Latin America
AzĆŗcar, salsa y santerĆa - Spanish Caribbean
Latin American Film
Latin American Cities
Latin American Civilizations 1492āpresent
Spanish 303 and 304 - Latin American Literature surveys
Spanish 200
Critical Reading (graduate)
Instructor Sācheduleā
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