PLAS Graduate Workshop | Nora Muñiz (SPO) & Manuel Pérez Archila (ECO)
Thu, 11/13 · 12:00 pm—1:15 pm · 216 Aaron Burr Hall
Program in Latin American Studies
“Admiration as Excuse: Fanmail in the Archive of the Latin American Boom”
PRESENTER
Nora Muñiz, Ph.D. Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese
Nora Muñiz is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and holds two bachelor’s degrees: one in Latin-American Literature from Universidad Iberoamericana and another in English Literature from UNAM. Muñiz was awarded the Fulbright García Robles Scholarship for her graduate studies in the United States, the Lassen Fellowship from the Program of Latin American Studies at Princeton, and recently, the Arcadio Díaz-Quiñonez Prize for Excellence in Teaching Award.
Her work focuses on the figure of the reader, the publishing industry in Latin America, and contemporary Latin-American literature written by women. She currently works as a fellow at Princeton University Press and is a founding member of GESEI, a study group around independent publishing. Her article “Escatón con glitter” earned her the Graduate Essay Student Prize Emilia Pardo Bazán by Feministas Unidas. In 2024 she will publish her first novel, A flor de piel, with Dharma Books.
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“Latin America’s Open Economies and Closed Polities: The Lives and Afterlives of Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro”
PRESENTER
Manuel Pérez Archila, Ph.D. Candidate, Economics
Manuel F. Pérez Archila is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics. His research focuses on the Global Financial Cycle and the role of the dollar in mediating capital flows to Latin America. He has experience working for international organizations where he has published articles on capital controls and international finance. Pérez Archila holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and a B.A. in Economics and Latin American Studies from Columbia University. He also helps coordinate the Colombian Studies Group at Princeton, which is an interdisciplinary initiative that aims to foster academic dialogue around Colombia, its people, and diaspora with an inter-American, critical, and progressive perspective.
