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, Perú, 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 monstrosity—including the cannibal—was a trope
used by European colonizers because they were idiots" —Joseph Pierce.
Degrees
PhD (Spanish), University of PennsylvaniaBA (Political Science), Barnard College, Columbia University
Publications
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 género policial, ed. Gerardo Pignatiello and Román Setton. Editorial Libros Medio Siglo, 2021
- El Hambre Nueva: Puerto Rico en el capitalismo tardío, Contracorriente: Mutantes y monstruos, ed. María del Carmen Caña Jiménez. UNC Press, 2020.
- Elpidio Valdés, 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.
Courses Taught
Sex and Gender in Latin America
Amazons to Zombies – Monsters in Latin America
Azúcar, salsa y santería - Spanish Caribbean
Latin American FilmLatin American Cities
Latin American Civilizations 1492–present
Spanish 303 and 304 - Latin American Literature surveys
Spanish 200
Critical Reading (graduate)
Instructor Schedule
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