Mira Briana E. Haydu
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - School of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures - Department of Spanish & PortugueseMira-Briana Elizabeth Haydu is a University of California Riverside Honors and Sigma Cum Laude B.A. graduate in Hispanic Literature. She is currently finishing her Master’s degree and has been a Graduate Teaching Assistant in and for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for the last two years. Her research interests include, but are not limited to, transatlantic literature and historical revisionism that concentrates on subaltern groups in the Americas: African and Indigenous peoples, Jews, and women. This summer, she presented research at the “Encuentro de colombianistas del S.XXI” conference in Ibagué, Colombia.
Teaching Interests
- Creating safe space
- Inspiring mindfulness
- Encouraging compassion
Research Interests
- Transatlantic and transtemporal literature
- Historical revisionism
- Subaltern groups
Selected Presentations
“El revisionismo histórico y el afrocentrismo transatlántico en Changó, el gran Putas” Presented at “Encuentro de colombianistas del S.XXI” in Ibagué, Colombia. June 2019
Selected Awards & Honors
Graduated Suma Cum Laude from the University of California Riverside
