Persephone Braham

Persephone Braham is Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Iberian Studies at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of the monograph From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America (2015). Related articles include “Song of the Sirenas: Mermaids in Latin America and the Caribbean” in Scaled for Success: The Internationalisation of the Mermaid (2018); “Listening to the Amazons” (Listening/Journal of Communication, Ethics, Religion, and Culture, 2017), “Pedro Cabiya's Caribbean Grotesque” in Latin American Gothic (2017); “Los vampiros, el cine, y el simulacro del dictador” in Nuevas aproximaciones al cine hispánico: Migraciones temporales, textuales y étnicas en el bicentenario de las independencias iberoamericanas (1810–2010) (2011); “Ghosts of Latin America” in The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters (2014), as well as the forthcoming “Galvanic Awakenings: The Caribbean Frankenstein” in Creolizing Frankenstein.