Ingrid Brioso Rieumont

|Assistant Professor

Academic Appointments

Mellon Faculty Fellow of Spanish and Portuguese
Research Associate and Lecturer of Spanish and Portuguese

I am a scholar of modern and contemporary Latin America with a particular focus on the history of slavery and the literature, aesthetics, and philosophy of the hispanophone Caribbean and Brazil. My research interests include Afro-Latin American writers in the nineteenth century, the history of political thought in the Caribbean, the relation between slavery and form, and critical theory and aesthetics. My core questions involve precarious subjectivities, physical permanence, material remnants after death, and other existences at the limits of life and of capital.

My first book project is a cultural history of the dead bodies of the enslaved as they appear in nineteenth-century novels. Key authors include Cirilo Villaverde, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, and Machado de Assis. Special interest in the work of Marx.

My concern for the preservation of the memory of the dead also inheres in other projects. I am the Spanish translator and editor of Paletó e eu. Memórias de meu pai indígena, a memoir of the Wari' people by Brazilian anthropologist Aparecida Vilaça, winner of the 2020 Casa de las Américas Literary Prize. I have also curated the exhibition Liquid La Habana: Ice Cream, Rum, Waves, Sweat and Spouts with the Princeton University School of Architecture.

I have received fellowships in support of my research from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the Cuban Heritage Collection, Princeton University's Dean of the Graduate School, and Dartmouth College's Leslie Center for the Humanities. I was a Fellow at the Cuban Heritage Collection, the Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies and an Affiliate in the Princeton Program in European Cultural Studies (by nomination).

In 2023, I was named a juror of the 63rd Casa de las Américas Literary Prize in Cuba. This award has served as a beacon for literature throughout Latin America since 1960.

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Contact

Ingrid.Brioso.Rieumont@dartmouth.edu

Dartmouth Hall, Room 202

HB 6072

Department(s)

Spanish and Portuguese

Education

Ph.D. Princeton University, 2022
M.A. Princeton University, 2017
B.A. Smith College cum laude, 2015

Selected Publications

Edited Volume

Editor. Aparecida Vilaça. Paletó y yo. Memorias de mi padre indígena. Introduction, "Nota de la traductora" 11-15, Translation, and Notes. La Habana: Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas, 2020. 252pp. *Winner of the 2020 Casa de las Américas Prize for Brazilian Literature.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

"El mundo ilegible de Lucrecia Martel: el oído y el tacto en 'La ciénaga' y 'La niña santa,'" Revista Casa de las Américas. Forthcoming in 2024.

"The Power of Comparison in the Caribbean: Creolization and Transculturation in Perspective." Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada 25.49 (2023): 51-69.

"Viaje a La Habana, viaje en el tiempo." Cuban studies 49.1 (2020): 350–358.

Essay

"Apoteosis." Crónicas de una pequeña ciudad mexicana en La Habana. Ed. Rubén Gallo. Editorial Hypermedia, 2020, 157-163.

Interview

Brioso Rieumont, Ingrid et al. "Ricardo Lísias: Não precisa acreditar no que digo. E nem acho que deva." Fórum de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea 10.19 (2018): 199-218.

Translations

Gustavo Castanheira. "Máquina Rubro-Negra." Revista Casa de las Américas, no. 313, 2023, p. 83-91. (From Portuguese)

Mauricio Acuña. "The Berimbau's Social Ginga: Notes Towards a Comprehension of Agency in Capoeira," Sociologia & Antropologia, vol. 6, no. 2, 2016, p. 383–405. (Co-translator, from Portuguese).

Creative Writing

"La casa de Ali." Revista Casa de las Américas 312 (2023): 73-78.

"El tren." El Cuentero 13 (2013): 49-53. *Winner of the Luisa Pérez de Zambrana Award for Best Short Story, Cuba.

"Dear Lourdes." Hispanic/Latino American Families in the United States: An Introduction for Educators and Care Providers. Eds. Maldonado, Nancy S., and Lilia L. DiBello. Association for Childhood Education International, 2012, 114-116.

Una recta entre dos puntos negros (with Frank D. Frías Rondón, Editorial Extramuros, 2009).

Works In Progress

Posthumous: Slavery and the Afterdeath in Nineteenth-century Cuba and Brazil (book manuscript)

Selected Works & Activities

Exhibition: Liquid La Habana: Ice Cream, Rum, Waves, Sweat and Spouts. Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, 9 April-11 May, 2018. With Beatriz Colomina, Bart-Jan Polman and Iván L. Munuera. Closing event: Gallery Talk, Symposium + Ice Cream Social(ism) with Tania Bruguera, Miguel Coyula and Rachel Price. Reviewed by Diario de Cuba; e-flux Architecture.

Catalogue: Liquid La Habana: Ice Cream, Rum, Waves, Sweat and Spouts. Eds. Ingrid Brioso Rieumont, Beatriz Colomina, Bart-Jan Polman, Iván L. Munuera. Princeton: Princeton University School of Architecture, 2018. 37 pp.

Literary catalogue: Reader: Cuban Literary Excerpts. Translation and edition by Ingrid Brioso Rieumont. Princeton: Princeton School of Architecture, 2018. 43 pp.

HONORS & AWARDS

2023 Finalist, Best Doctoral Dissertation in Cuban Studies Award, awarded by the Cuba Section of the Latin American Studies Association

2022 Princeton University President’s Award for Scholarly Excellence

2021-22 Princeton University Dean’s Completion Fellowship and Postgraduate Research Associate Appointment

2019-20 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship

2018-19 Cuban Heritage Collection Research Fellowship

2018 Princeton University Teaching Award

2015 Smith College Elizabeth Wanning Harries Prize for excellence in the study of literature

Aparecida Vilaça. Paletó y yo. Memorias de mi padre indígena. Introduction, Translation, Edition, and Notes by Ingrid Brioso Rieumont. La Habana: Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas, 2020.
Exhibition Catalogue: Liquid La Habana: Ice Cream, Rum, Waves, Sweat and Spouts. Eds. Ingrid Brioso Rieumont et al. Princeton: Princeton University School of Architecture, 2018. 37 pp
Brioso Rieumont, Ingrid and Frank D. Frías Rondón. Una recta entre dos puntos negros. La Habana: Editorial Extramuros, 2009.

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Mellon Faculty Fellow of Spanish and Portuguese