HISTAGRA-CISPAC researcher Aarón Navia awarded a Fulbright scholarship

 

Aarón Navia’s Fulbright scholarship will enable him to explore how the performing arts reflect contemporary Galicia. He will carry out part of his doctoral thesis at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

 

An actor and theatre director with a degree in Performing Arts, Aarón Navia lived for several years in Latin America before finally returning to Galicia on a BEME grant to study for a Master’s in Cultural Services at the USC. His thesis supervisor is HISTAGRA-CISPAC researcher Ana Cabana Iglesia.

 

The body can be a constructor of signs legible to society. Based on this premise, the doctoral thesis that Aarón Navia Fernández is developing at the USC, under the supervision of Professor Ana Cabana, investigates how, within the performing arts —theatre, performance, action art, but also cinema— a tension arises between a certain description/archiving of the world and a prescription of how that world ought to be. In particular, “my thesis examines this process of tension within the context of contemporary Galicia”, explains the student, who will carry out part of his research at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, thanks to the recent award of a pre-doctoral Fulbright grant. This institution is one of the eight Ivy League universities, alongside Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Brown, Princeton and Cornell.

 

Further information at:

 

https://www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/novas/estudante-aaron-navia-logra-bolsa-fulbright-abordar-artes-vivas-reflicten-galicia-contemporanea