Participant Info
- First Name
- Maria H
- Last Name
- Barrera-Agarwal
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY New York
- mhbarrerab@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Independent scholar
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Book History, Women's History, Latin America, Ecuador, India, Nineteenth Century, Literature, Art History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
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- About Me
Maria Barrera-Agarwal is an attorney, an independent researcher and a translator. Her interests span from philology and literature to cultures in contact. She is a member of the National Academy of History (Ecuador), the India International Centre (India) and Pen America (USA), among other institutions. She is the author of six non-fiction books and three volumes of translations published in Ecuador, Bangladesh and the United States. Among her published works are two that constitute a unified research aimed to the re-framing of the hegemonic view held on the works and life of Ecuadorian nineteenth century poet Dolores Veintimilla: the biography Dolores Veintimilla: más allá de los mitos (2015) and the critical edition De ardiente inspiración: Obras de Dolores Veintimilla (2016). In 2010, her book Merton y Ecuador: La búsqueda del país secreto received Ecuador’s most prestigious literary award, the Aurelio Espinosa Pólit National Prize.
- Recent Publications
Recent essays
- El mono gramático: aproximación a una incógnita, in Revista Andina, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador, Vol. 1, No. 4, p. 43-50 https://repositorio.uasb.edu.ec/bitstream/10644/8137/1/08-EN-Barrera-Agarwal.pdf
- La mujer en la literatura ecuatoriana, en Revista Andina, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan 2020, p. 28-35. http://repositorio.uasb.edu.ec/handle/10644/7156
- Francisco Javier Vingut. Un legado sustancial a la historia del idioma español en los Estados Unidos, en Revista de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (RANLE), Volumen 7, # 23, p, 25, https://www.ranle.us/numeros/volumen-7/numero-13/francisco-javier-vingut-un-legado-sustancial-a-la-historia-del-idioma-espan-ol-en-los-estados-unidos/
- Jicotencal, an enigma is solved, en A contracorriente, una revista de estudios latinoamericanos, North Caroline State University (2018) https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1836
Recent Books
- Dolores Veintimilla, más allá de los mitos. Academia Nacional de Historia del Ecuador / SurEditores, Quito, Ecuador, 2015. ISBN 9789942217424 (Essay)
- Anatomía de una traición: la venta de la bandera. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Núcleo de Tungurahua / SurEditores, Quito, Ecuador, 2015. ISBN 9789942211132 (Essay)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- M. H. Barrera-Agarwal
- Country Focus
- Ecuador, India, United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, Latin America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Early Modern, Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Colonialism, Law, Libraries & Archives, Literary History, Public History, Women
