Ingrid Brioso Rieumont

My current monograph-in-progress, tentatively titled The Edges of Slavery: Pre-birth and the Post-mortem in 19th-Century Cuba and Brazil, is a substantial revision of my doctoral dissertation, which was awarded the 2024 First Honorable Mention for Best Dissertation by the Caribbean Studies Association and the 2022 Princeton University Dissertation Award, along with new postdoctoral research supported by the Mellon Foundation. This manuscript expands the understanding of transatlantic slavery by exploring the often-overlooked prenatal and post-mortem stages of enslaved individuals, drawing on 19th-century perspectives and canonical novels from Cuba and Brazil. Key authors include Cirilo Villaverde, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, and Machado de Assis, with a special interest in the work of Marx. This project is currently the Dartmouth institutional nominee for the NEH Summer Stipend, selected from across the Arts & Sciences, and has also received additional funding from the Dartmouth College Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities.

I am also 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 Prize for Brazilian Literature. Additionally, I curated and edited the exhibition Liquid La Habana: Ice Cream, Rum, Waves, Sweat and Spouts at the Princeton University School of Architecture.

My research has received support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays DDRA Program, the Cuban Heritage Collection, Princeton University Dean of the Graduate School, and Dartmouth College Leslie Center for the Humanities. I was a Fellow at the Cuban Heritage Collection, a Visiting Graduate Researcher at the University of São Paulo Faculty of Philosophy, Languages, and Literature, a Lassen Graduate Fellow in the Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies (by nomination), and a Graduate Affiliate in the Princeton Program in European Cultural Studies (by nomination).

In 2023, I served as a juror for the 63rd Casa de las Américas Literary Prize in Cuba, an award that has recognized significant contributions to literature throughout Latin America since 1960.

Alongside my proficiency in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, I have recently embarked on studying French.