AURÉLIE VIALETTE - Yale University

Wednesday, November 12

4:00 PM

New Cabell Hall 349

About the Speaker

Aurélie Vialette is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Spanish. A scholar of archive theory and modern Iberian studies, her work explores the intersections of labor, gender, and incarceration in the Spanish Empire. She is the author of Intellectual Philanthropy: The Seduction of the Masses (Purdue University Press, 2018) and co-editor of Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain (SUNY Press, 2025). Her current book project, The Penal Archive of the Iberian Pacific: Prison and Disability in the 19th-Century Philippines (Cornell University Press), examines the racial, ethical, political, and social issues involved in the penal colonization process in the Philippines.

Supported by the Institute of Humanities and Global Cultures; the East Asia Center. Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.