Author Archive | Grace

Introduction Perolata. A word that, if searched, does not exist. Instead, the results that emerge are for the word “perorata,” which is defined by the Real Academia de Lengua as a “discurso o razonamiento, generalmente pesado y sin substancia” (discourse or reasoning, generally weighted and without substance) (n. pág.). But that is not what a […]

Now, after only a few days less than a month in Sevilla, I sit outside of la Facultad de Filología at la Universidad de Sevilla, on a possibly centuries-old bench, under the already-potent, March sun of Andalucía, where the palm trees and other flora provide occasional shade to those who already seek it. A light […]