College & Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

In a reality characterized by massive global movements, it is fundamental to understand the wide range of perspectives involving their different social actors by investigating, for instance, the connections between the socio-political realities of both the mother country and the target one, as they are embodied in literature.

The project “Migration and Ecocriticism in Latin American Literature” investigates the ways in which Latin American authors represent the effects of climate changes, the territorial modifications caused by deforestation and abuse of natural materials, and how this determines the spread of migratory movements.

This workshop invites academics, indigenous leaders, and activists to reflect on the current state of UVa/indigenous relations, and to imagine new possibilities.

As a PhD student in the Department of Spanish, my research focuses on literary engagements with nationalism, populism, and terrorism in the emerging field of Basque Studies.

My dissertation project examines the emergence of the new global order that replaced the Cold War world.

My dissertation “Sufrir, salir, sobrevivir: Cultural Responses to the 2008 Crisis in Spain” examines questions of migration, poverty, economics, and sociology, as depicted through culture.

Talks on the Economy, Market, Politics and Organizations (TEMPO) is an interdisciplinary workshop of faculty and graduate students devoted to the development of empirical work exploring the global and/or comparative dimension of “the economic” in social life.

Based on textual analysis, historical materials and ethnographic research by Sinologists, Historians, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, this workshop explores social forms running from ancient China to their transformations across Indo-Pacific.

This project looks at the evolution of economic discourse in post-WWII Italy, with a specific focus on the annual reports authored and delivered to the public by the Italian Central Bank.

These researchers, all linguistic anthropologists, pay attention both to major world languages like English and Chinese and to small, minoritized, and unwritten languages, just as they try to understand what is happening at micro- and macro-levels in all communities whose linguistic ideologies, practices, and institutions they study.