PhD candidate in English at Stanford University
Duration of stay: October 1 – November 30, 2023
In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Johannes Völz
Alan Burnett Valverde holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Columbia University, and is currently a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University. His research explores literary exchanges between writers from the United States and Mexico during the early twentieth century, paying special attention to the relationship between radical politics and literary genres. Alan has presented academic papers at Stanford’s Center for the Study of the Novel, the American Literature Association Conference, and Université Paris Cité. He is now working on his doctoral dissertation, titled “Children of the Revolution: Mexican-American Modernisms in the 1930s.
From October 1 through November 30, 2023, Alan Burnett Valverde is a GREP international fellow at ConTrust and the Department of American Studies at the Institute of English and American Studies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Columbia University, and is currently an MA/PhD candidate in English at Stanford University. His research explores literary exchanges between writers from the United States and Mexico during the early twentieth century, paying special attention to the relationship between radical politics and literary genres. Alan has presented academic papers at Stanford’s Center for the Study of the Novel, the American Literature Association Conference, and Université Paris Cité.
He is now working on his dissertation, titled “Children of the Revolution: Mexican-American Modernisms in the 1930s.” He is co-hosted by ConTrust and part of the new GREP fellowship program.