Ronald Briggs

Ronald Briggs is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University. He completed his Ph.D. at New York University (NYU) and has also taught at Bard College and NYU, where he served as managing editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. He works on the convergence of education, social reform and literary theory in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural production. 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: Simon Rodríguez and the American Essay at Revolution (Vanderbilt University Press, 2010), and his publications include articles in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Studies in Travel Writing, Dieciocho, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and Decimonónica.

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