Paul Firbas
Associate Professor
(631) 632-6138

Education:
Ph.D., Princeton University , 2001
M.A., Univ. of Notre Dame, 1995
B.A. Univ. Católica del Perú, 1992
Curriculum Vitae

Paul Firbas is associate professor of Spanish-American Literature in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at Stony Brook University. Before coming to Stony Brook in 2007, Firbas was assistant professor at Princeton University (2001-07) and visiting assistant professor at Columbia University (Fall 2007).
His research deals with epic poetry, historiography and the colonial geography of transatlantic South America. He has published a study and a critical and annotated edition of Armas antárticas, epic poem written by Juan de Miramontes Zuázola (Lima: PUCP, 2006). His articles deal with cultural traditions in colonial Peru ("Escribir en los confines: épica y mundo antártico", in Agencias criollas, Pittsburgh, 2000); with Sarmiento de Gamboa's accounts on the Strait of Magellan (Iberoromania 2003); the epic genre in the colonial world (Cuadernos hispanoamericanos 2005); and the female image of the city of Lima (Hostos Review 2005), etc. He is currently working on a book on the Strait of Magellan between 1579 and 1622; and on a series of essays on memory and excavation in the Andes.
He has also co-edited with Pedro M. Monteiro a book on contemporary Latin American documentary films: Andrés Di Tella: cine documental y archivo personal (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2006).
In November 2003, he organized a colloquim on Epic Text and the Colonial World at Princeton University.