Ronald D Briggs

Ronald Briggs studies the convergence of education and literary theory in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Americas. An associate professor in the Department of Spanish & Latin American Cultures at Barnard College, he has also taught at Bard College and New York University, where he served as managing editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. He is the author of two books, The Moral Electricity of Print: Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit: 1876-1910 (Vanderbilt University Press, 2017) and Tropes of Enlightenment in the Age of Bolívar: Simón Rodríguez and the American Essay at Revolution (Vanderbilt UP, 2010). He is co-editor of Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera: Escritos en prensa extranjera (with Mónica Cárdenas Moreno, Ediciones MyL, 2024) and Latin American Literature in Transition. Vol. II: 1800-1870 (with Ana Peluffo, Cambridge University Press, 2023). His articles have appeared in Les Cahiers ALHIM, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Studies in Travel Writing, Dieciocho, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, and Decimonónica.

“Work and the Intellectual: From Simón Rodríguez (1769-1854) to Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909).” The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Edited by Agnes Lugo Ortiz and Graciela Montaldo. Routledge, 2024. pp. 364-374.

Edited with Mónica Cárdenas Moreno. Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera: Escritos en prensa extranjera. Ediciones MyL (Lima, Peru), 2024.

With Mónica Cárdenas Moreno. “Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera en la prensa de París y Nueva York: modernidad transatlántica y proyecto americanista.” Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire. Les Cahiers ALHIM, no. 47, 2024. n. pag. http://journals.openedition.org/alhim/12393

Edited with Ana Peluffo. Latin American Literature in Transition. Vol. II: 1800-1870. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

“Clorinda Matto, Virginia Bolton, and Press as Pedagogy in Turn-of-the-Century Buenos Aires.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 100, no. 1, January 2023, pp. 33-46.

“‘Hierro y carbón’: trabajo, socialismo y peruanidad en el exilio de Clorinda Matto de Turner.” Clorinda Matto en el Siglo XXI, edited by Ana Peluffo and Francesca Denegri. Fondo Editorial de la PUCP, 2022. pp. 261-285.