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Ronald Briggs
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Cultures
Ronald Briggs, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Cultures, joined Barnard's faculty in 2008, having taught at Bard College, Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, and New York University.
Working from a focus on the intellectual and artistic currents that shaped independence rhetoric in Spanish America and the U.S., Briggs has written on the Venezuelan educational reformer Simón Rodríguez and other essayists of the period. His interests include enlightenment philosophy, educational theory, and the development of the essay.
Selected Publications
“‘THE SOLE OBJECT OF ALL MY EFFORTS IS TO DO YOU GOOD’: Robert Owen, Simón Rodríguez and the Saint-Simonist Avant-Garde,” Decimonónica 5.1 (2008).
“‘Plain Boys and Girls’ Meet the Imitative Art: José Martí on the Poetics of Public Education,” Caribe 10.2 (Winter 2007-2008): 7-32.
“Naturaleza y letras: Emerson, Bello, Rodríguez y la ansiedad posrevolucionaria,” Revista de Humanidades: Tecnológico de Monterrey 19 (2005): 43-62.212.854.9873
rbriggs@barnard.edu
EDUCATION:
B.A., University of the South (Sewanee)
M.A., Middlebury College