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Graduate Student in Spanish

Background

Braden Clinger is a doctoral candidate of Hispanic Language and Literature in Boston University’s Department of Romance Studies. After graduating from Utah State University in 2015, Braden taught English in Spain. He earned his master’s degree at Boston University in 2020. Braden’s interests include rurality, banditry, vernacular religion, adaptation, film, museum studies, and archival research. His dissertation, Mediations of Popular Belief in the Southern Cone: Museums, Prose, New Media, and Film on the Traditional Guarani Frontier, focuses on the movement of popular belief and folk figures through different modalities of cultural production in Paraguay and the bordering states and provinces in the southern cone.