Persephone Braham
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 Pennsylvania
- BA (Political Science), Barnard College, Columbia University
