Aurélie Vialette

Aurélie Vialette, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, is a scholar of archive theories and practices. Her research areas are working-class culture, popular music, social movements, gender studies, prison reform, slavery networks, and disability studies. Her first book,  Intellectual Philanthropy: the Seduction of the Masses, which received the 2019 North American Catalan Society book award, challenges the conventional cultural and intellectual history of the relationship between bourgeois intellectuals and the working class in modern Iberia by analyzing philanthropic projects addressed to industrial workers. She has also published Dissonances of Modernity: Music, Text, and Performance in Modern Spain (co-edited with Irene Gómez-Catellanos) in 2021; and The Legacies of Slavery in Modern Iberia (co-edited with Akiko Tsuchiya), forthcoming 2025. She is currently working on a book manuscript on penal colonies in the southern Philippines titled The Trial Run: Gender, Disability and Penal Colonies in the Philippines in the 19th Century, to be published at Cornell UP. She is the director of www.clave.cat, a Digital Humanities project on music and politics. She is preparing a special issue on Disability Studies and Iberian Studies, for Hispanic Review. Vialette has recently been an invited professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France. She is the managing editor of Catalan Review.