Fall 2022 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, romance studies
Federico Giordano Perla is a Ph.D. candidate in the Romance Studies Department at Cornell. He received a B.A. in Literature from the Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay), with an emphasis on English Literature and Classical Latin. He formed part of the organizing committees of several events in the literary community of his native Uruguay, including the festival Ya Te Conté: Narrativas recientes rioplatenses. Currently, his research focuses on shipwrecks and castaway narratives in conjunction with the apocalypse in Latin America and the world. In 2015, he published the collection of short-stories titled Señal/Ruido.