Comparative Literature

Isabel Farías Velasco is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Comparative Literature, where she focuses on colonial Latin American literature. Among the themes that occupy her research are classical reception studies, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and (self)translation processes in early modern Mexico. She approaches these themes by focusing on trilingual texts written in Nahautl, Latin and Spanish, and engages with the effects that these languages had on the linguistic, social and spatiotemporal landscape of New Spain. She engages with these dynamics in her dissertation project, tentatively titled Outlandish Tongues: Colonial Translations in Early Modern Mexico. Prior to her studies at Brown University, Isabel earned a degree in Ancient Studies from Barnard College at Columbia University.

Education:

B.A. in Ancient Studies, Barnard College, 2015

Languages:

Spanish, English, Nahuatl, Latin, Ancient Greek