About
My
research and
teaching interests lie in the intersections of contemporary Latin American literature, the cultural politics of emotion, human rights narratives, ecocriticism, and critical theory. My book manuscript,
Derechos humanos y las políticas de la empatía en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XXI (
Human Rights and the Politics of Empathy in 21st Century Latin American Literature), explores how the work of Evelio Rosero, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Alonso Sánchez Baute, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Claudia Hernández, and Horacio Castellanos Moya offers new venues to explore empathy and human rights narratives in the context of Colombian and Central American post-conflict societies. As part of this project, currently I am co-editing a volume on cultural production in Colombia in relation to human rights.
Publications
Edited Books
Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production: Embodied Enactments. Co-edited with Kevin Guerrieri (Routledge, 2022).
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Academic Journals or Edited Books
“Humanitarismo literario y migración forzada: un estudio de
Las tierras arrasadas de Emiliano Monge”.
Co-herencia, Vol. 19 No. 36, enero – junio 2022.
https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.19.36.10
“Horror neoliberal y espectros subversivos en
La llorona de Jayro Bustamante”.
Violencia, poder y afectos narrativas del miedo en Latinoamérica. Eds. Marco Ramírez and David Rozotto (Forthcoming. Tamesis Books, 2022)
“Introduction. Human Rights Subjects, Microhistories, and Assemblages in Colombian Cultural Production.” With Kevin G. Guerrieri.
Human Rights and Colombian Cultural Production. (Routledge, 2022)
“Towards New Human Rights Narratives? Reflections on Migration and Violence in Daniel Ferreira’s Rebelión de los oficios inútiles.”
Human Rights and Colombian Cultural Production. (Routledge, 2022)
“Violence, Slow and Explosive: Spectrality, Landscape, and Trauma in Evelio Rosero’s Los ejércitos.”
Ecofictions and Ecorealities of Latin America and the Hispanic/Latino-a/Latinx Worlds. Eds. Ana María Mutis, Ilka Kressner, and Elizabeth Pettinaroli. Routledge, pp 162-179, 2019.
Derechos humanos y corporeidad en “Los ejércitos” de Evelio Rosero.
Chasqui, revista de literatura latinoamericana. 5/ 2017. Vol. 46 Issue 1, pp. 139-152
Derechos humanos, sujeto liberal y empatía en “Los ejércitos”.
Evelio Rosero y los ciclos de la creación literaria. Eds. Felipe Gómez Gutiérrez and María del Carmen Saldarriaga. Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, pp. 193-216, 5/2017
Una re-lectura de la violencia en “Los papeles del infierno” de Enrique Buenaventura.
Teatro. Revista de estudios culturales 5/2014
“Niebla” de Unamuno más allá de Kierkegaard. Amor y polifonía como superación del naturalismo.
Folios 5/2014.
