Laurie Garriga Wins GRAF
Laurie Garriga, a PhD student in our Hispanic Language and Literatures program, has won a GRS Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF). Garriga will use her fellowship to conduct archival research on the works of the noted Spanish author Juan Ramón Jimenéz.
Jimenéz fled Spain during the Spanish civil war and the archive of his works in Spain was largely destroyed by Franco’s supporters. While Jimenéz did reconstruct an archive of his works in his new home of Puerto Rico, naturally that new archive was incomplete. By studying the material that remains of his original archive in Spain, Garriga hopes to draw new insights of the life and works of Jimenéz.
Garriga says of her project, “I hope to shed light on the life and work of Juan Ramón Jiménez and his role in establishing the prototype for the migrant-poet of modernity, a figure dedicated to the stewardship of memory across borders.”
Congratulations, Laurie!