Dr. Larissa Brewer García

Biography

Larissa Brewer-García specializes in colonial Latin American studies with a focus on cultural productions from the Caribbean and Andes, as well as the African diaspora. Her research interests encompass gender studies, literature and law, genealogies of race and racism, humanism, Catholicism, and translation studies. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and earned her Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. Larissa has been awarded numerous fellowships, including from the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago, the Mellon Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently a co-editor of Critical Inquiry and has co-founded the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture. In addition, Larissa serves on the Faculty Committee of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University. Her notable publications include her book 'Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada' and various articles covering topics such as the intersection of translation, race, and religious portraits in the colonial Andes.

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