Effat Wins Dissertation Award
Recent alumnus Amir Effat has won the Premio Peter Bly award from the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas for the best dissertation in 2019 on a topic related to Galdós, for his dissertation titled On the Edge: Liminal Spaces in the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós. Great work, Amir!
Speaking of his choice of topic, Amir tells us:
I am fascinated by how fiction can help us better understand the way we perceive the world. My research on liminal or “in-between’” settings that lie at the intersection of public and private, domestic and commercial, interior and exterior has led me to conclusions about how space can determine social reality, shape identity, and serve as a “window” into a person’s soul. This research extends beyond Galdós and nineteenth-century realist novels. Examining the socioeconomic, historical, and cultural factors that influence our perception of space illuminates how the past informs the present, and how we can imagine a better future.
Amir graduated from BU Romance Studies in September 2019 with a doctorate in Hispanic Language & Literatures.