Guest Speaker: Marilola Perez
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Marilola Pérez holds a Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley in Linguistics.
Her research fits into current academic trends that defy geographical boundaries to include the Philippines in the Latin America imaginary. She has focused on the Cavite City variety of Philippine Creole Spanish (popularly called "Chabacano"), a language that emerged in a highly multilingual community during the Spanish colonial rule, to investigate the historical and sociolinguistic features that make Chabacano an atypical Creole language. Her current project compares the political and literary production of the Philippines and the Spanish Caribbean at the eve of the Spanish-American War with particular attention to the figures of Jose Rizal in the Philippines, and Eugenio María de Hostos and Ramón Emeterio Betances in Puerto Rico.