Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor
Ameya Tripathi researches the modern literatures and cultures of Spain in the context of colonialism, revolution, migration and translation. His current book project, Documents of Revolution: Occupying, Broadcasting and Archiving in the Spanish Civil War argues that revolutionary documents across poetry, prose, and multimedia including radio broadcasts, films, and scrapbooks, require a different, anti-colonial understanding of documents. This project explores Spanish authors such as Mateo Santos, Miguel Hernández and María Teresa León; and visiting authors including Nicolás Guillén, Langston Hughes, George Orwell, and Nancy Cunard. As a range of diverse anarchist, Black, Latin American and feminist internationalisms collided, Spain became the crucible for a new kind of dissident documentary style. This project will be expanded by considering non-aligned internationalism in the context of the war, including a wide range of protagonists from the Global South. His next project analyses the concept of informal empire in a variety of documentary genres, especially focusing on how declining imperial powers continued to wield global influence through tax havens, monopolies, and hierarchical regimes of urban planning.