Hello, my name is Maria Farinha. I am currently a fourth year student obtaining a double major in Political Science and Spanish at the University of British Columbia.
I am originally from Portugal, and have been living in Canada for almost 7 years.
Currently I am also taking a course on the Comparative Politics of Immigration which I hope will overlap with some of the content we will be looking at.
I am really interested in the work done in that field and hope that studying its manifestation in literature will help me gain insights on this and many other subjects around the sufferings and experiences of latino communities in the US. I am also looking forward to being exposed to a different set of voices in the literary world. Having mainly read books written by European authors, I am looking forward to this change.