Mira Briana E. Haydu


Mira Briana E. Haydu
  • Ph.D. Student
  • College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Spanish & Portuguese

Contact Info

Wescoe Hall 2037
Lawrence
Lawrence, KS

Biography

Mira-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.

Research

Research interests:

  • Transatlantic and transtemporal literature
  • Historical revisionism
  • Subaltern groups

Teaching

Teaching interests:

  • Creating safe space
  • Inspiring mindfulness
  • Encouraging compassion

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

Awards & Honors

Graduated Suma Cum Laude from the University of California Riverside