Sephardic Lecture: Jewish Refugee Writers in Mexico

Tabea Linhard is a Professor of Spanish, Global Studies, and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on displacement and asylum experiences in the 1930s and 1940s, and she has published extensively on Spanish and Mexican literature and film, Memory Studies, Jewish Studies, and Mediterranean Studies. Her books include Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico (Stanford, 2023), Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory (Stanford, 2014), and the edited volumes Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space (Palgrave, 2018) and Revisiting Jewish Spain in the Modern Era (Routledge, 2013). She is currently working on a new book project, Agents’ Secrets, which explores the relationship between gender and espionage during the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the early years of the Cold War.

At Washington University she teaches courses on Spanish and Spanish American literature and cultural studies, the Holocaust, and global migration. She is a founding member of Genealogies of Sepharad and a Principal Investigator for the  Moving Stories research initiative.

NOTE: start time is 6:00pm. Venue TBA in fall semester.