Professor Vanesa Miseres and Professor Ainaí Morales Pino (PUCP) have been awarded a research grant in the Annual Research Projects Competition of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). Their one-year project, “Construction of a Latin American Feminist Archive at the Turn-of-the-Century,” focuses on feminist texts written by Latin American women writers and journalists from 1880 to 1920 and it includes authors like Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, María Jesús Alvarado, Zoila Aurora Cáceres, Bertha Lutz, Adela Zamudio, Emma de la Barra, and Elvira Rawson, among other less-known intellectuals from the period.

During the tenure of the grant, Professor Miseres and Professor Morales Pino will complete archival research at the newspapers collection of the PUCP, the National Library of Peru, and Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Library Special Collections. Digital repositories such as those of the National Library of Chile, and the cultural magazines collections of both the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin and CeDInCI (Argentina) will also be central to their study. This is a work of applied research that will combine a vast theoretical and critical corpus on feminisms and Latin American intellectual history with archival work for the recovery and re-evaluation of women thinkers and activists in the history of the continent. Within the current academic year, Prof. Miseres and Prof. Morales Pino will complete 2 academic articles for publication and will design an anthology of feminist texts in Spanish for future publication in Latin America.

Prof. Miseres will complete a short research stay in Lima this Fall 2023 and Prof. Morales Pino will visit Notre Dame in the Spring 2024. These collaborative projects with faculty members of foreign institutions contribute to Notre Dame’s internationalization efforts and expands the department of Romance Languages’ visibility in Latin America.

Originally published by Staff at romancelanguages.nd.edu on September 28, 2023.