#  Rachael Duarte Riascos 

 

 



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Rachael Duarte Riascos is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her dissertation, “We Speak Violence: The Political Effects of Our Narrative Structure,” reevaluates the ethics that are implicit in the way that we narrate, or rather fail to narrate, everyday experiences of mass or systemic violence, and the effect this wields on contemporary political and social discourses, and actions. Her dissertation focuses on African American narratives of systemic racism, and surveys a wide range of literary, sociological, and anthropological narratives. Apart from her dissertation, she studies Soviet, Eastern European, and Latin American literature, working in Russian, Spanish, French, and Serbo-Croatian. She is a published translator of Russian author Linor Goralik’s “Something Like This (A War Story)” by Columbia University Press, and has also translated from Spanish to English for various art exhibitions.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [Literature](/disciplines/comparative-literature)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion](/fellowship/interdisciplinary-dissertation-completion)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2018 - 2019](/fellowship-year/2018-2019)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)