Unexpected Routes and Beautiful Friendships: Refugees in Mexico
Unexpected Routes and Beautiful Friendships: Refugees in Mexico
Tabea Linhard is Professor of Spanish 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) and Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory (Stanford, 2014). 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.
In addition to her accomplishments as a researcher, Professor Linhard is also the Director of Global Studies at Washington University. She teaches courses on Spanish and Spanish American literature, cultural studies, the Holocaust, and migration. She is also a founding member of the Genealogías de Sefarad Research Collective.