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CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
SPEAKER: Erika Valdivieso, Yale UNIVERSITY
Erika Valdivieso specializes in Latin poetry, book history, and the legacies of classical humanism in Spanish and Portuguese America. She holds a BA in Classics and an MAT in Latin from the University of Michigan and earned her PhD in Classics at Brown University. Before coming to Yale, she was a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Valdivieso is a former fellow of the John Carter Brown Library, a member of the Institute of Andean Studies, and a junior fellow in the Rare Book School’s Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography.
Her research focuses on the overlap between classical education and colonialism in the early Americas. Valdivieso’s current book project examines four Latin epics from colonial Mexico and Brazil as a case study for the relation between the reading and writing of Virgilian epic, on the one hand, and the development of soft power, on the other