Bios

Panelists and Moderators

Elvira Aballi Morell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. With a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, Elvira has a diverse background in teaching Literature and Music. She has held positions at Vanderbilt University and the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University. Her areas of expertise span various subjects, focusing on pedagogical praxis, the digital humanities, and the intersections of literature, visual art, music, and religion. Aballi Morell’s current book project explores how various twentieth and twenty-first-century Cuban and US artists have represented the Abakua Society—a Cuban religious male confraternity—and how the Society’s colonial legacies have shaped modern and contemporary cultural practices.

Mariana Achugar (PhD University of California, Davis 2002) is Full Professor at the Faculty of Information and Communication at the University of the Republic, Uruguay (Udelar) and the chair of the Cátedra UNESCO de  DDHH of the Udelar. She is part of the National System of Researchers of Uruguay (SNI) and is a Guggenheim Fellow  (2009). Her research program has focused on the exploration of discursive processes of cultural transmission/transformation and identity construction. Her approach to discourse studies seeks to document the dynamic nature of semiotic work as part of historical processes in case studies of key events or problems at the social level (e.g. the traumatic past of the last Uruguayan dictatorship, gender differences, discrimination, and environmental conflicts, etc.).

Carolina Añón Suárez is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fairfield University. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in Literature from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. She is the author of Cuentan las pibas: narrativas infanto-juveniles de la generación posdictadura en Argentina (Pibas’ Acts of Storytelling That Matter: Childhood and Youth Narratives of the Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina) (2024) and coeditor of Generación Hijes: memoria, posdictadura y posconflicto en América Latina (Hijes Generation: Memory, Post-dictatorship, and Post-conflict in Latin America) (2023).

Sophia Beal is Professor of Portuguese at the University of Minnesota. Most of her research focuses on how contemporary Brazilian literature and culture respond to and influence the built environment. Her current project analyses how women writers address issues of identity, agency, and place. She is the author of The Art of Brasília: 2000–2019 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Brazil under Construction: Fiction and Public Works (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Her two books were published in Portuguese translation with the titles A arte de Brasília: 2000–2019 (University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2021) and Brasil em construção: As obras públicas na literatura do século XX (Editora Zouk, 2017). She also co-edited two volumes: Contemporary Brazilian Cities, Culture, and Resistance (2022), an issue of Hispanic Issues Online (with Gustavo Prieto), and Infrastructuralism (2015), an issue of Modern Fiction Studies (with Bruce Robbins and Michael Rubenstein). Her articles have appeared in the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Brasil-Brazil, Chasqui, Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, Hispania, the Luso-Brazilian Review, Romance Notes, Teresa, and Veredas, among other journals. She earned her PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Tulane University in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 

Kata Beilin is a Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In the past decade, she has focused her work within the field of Environmental Humanities. Her current research centers on contemporary Maya culture. She is writing a book titled The Return of the Mayan Moment: The Time of the Yucatan Forests, for which she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 2022. Additionally, she directed the documentary film Maya Land: Listening to the Bees, released in both English and Spanish in 2022, which has won several international festival prizes.

Natalie L. Belisle is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Professor Belisle’s research and teaching focus on contemporary Caribbean and Afro-Latin American literary and production and aesthetics. Her first book, Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at Home is forthcoming this winter 2024, with Rutgers University Press. She has also published essays in Small Axe, Interventions, Diacritics, and the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.

Ángela Castro es Profesora Asistente en Colorado College. Obtuvo su Maestría y Doctorado en Literaturas y Culturas Latinoamericanas en la Universidad de Minnesota. Es cofundadora de Aproximaciones Afrolatinoamericanas, un espacio virtual de discusión sobre la historia, la literatura, y las artes afro-latinoamericanas. Su investigación se centra en las representaciones predominantes del cuerpo femenino afrocaribeño del siglo XX y XXI. Utiliza el concepto de palimpsesto como un medio para reconfigurar el cuerpo femenino afrocaribeño como lugar de empoderamiento y resistencia que nace en las luchas de la historia poscolonial y neocolonial. Ha publicado “Power-In-Passivity: A Study of The Body and the Hegelian Consciousness in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy” en el Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial (2017), “The Haitian and Dominican Resistance: A Study of the Symptom in Edwidge Danticat's Work The Farming of Bones”, (2020) en Suny Press y “The Palimpsestic Afro-Panamanian Woman in Melanie Taylor Herrera’s Camino a Mariato” (2022) con Vanderbilt University Press. 

Megan Corbin is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She completed her doctorate at the University of Minnesota with a focus on Hispanic Literatures and Cultures as well as a graduate minor in Feminist and Critical Sexuality Studies. Since 2022 she is Editor of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press). She is also Managing Editor of Hispanic Issues (Vanderbilt University Press) and Hispanic Issues Online. She has published essays related to the work of Diamela Eltit in Lucero Journal and Catedral Tomada and on the role of objects and the material in narrating the past in Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural and Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, as well as in the edited volumes Espectros: Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives (Ribas-Casasayas and Petersen, 2016) and Anti-Portraiture (Johnstone and Imber, 2021). One of her most recent essays (in REFRAME, 2023) explores how innovations in virtual technology present new ethical questions for memory activism. She is co-editor with Karín Davidovich of the volume Vestigios del pasado. Los sitios de memoria y sus representaciones artísticas y políticas (2019). Dr. Corbin’s first book, Haunted Objects: Spectral Testimony in the Southern Cone Postdictatorship (2021) explores the role of the material in the narrating of the past, offering the concept of "spectral testimony" as a theoretical framework for discussing the object's role in witnessing. Her current research explores the role of sound in postdictatorial cultural production in the Southern Cone. 

Sophie Esch is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and the Director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies at Rice University in Houston. She writes and researches the intersection of literature, politics, war, and the environment in the Global South, with a particular focus on Mexico, Central America, and Luso-Africa. Esch is the author of the award-winning book Modernity at Gunpoint. Firearms, Politics, and Culture in Mexico and Central America (2018, University of Pittsburgh Press) and the editor of Central American Literatures as World Literatures (2023, Bloomsbury). She is currently writing her second book about multispecies narratives of war and revolution in Africa and Latin America, which is under contract with Columbia University Press.  The book analyzes a wide range of prose fiction from countries with recent armed conflicts, namely Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Mozambique, and Angola. This research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. She is currently editing two special issues, one on Mexican Critters for Humanimalia and one of Latin American native fauna for Hispanic Review.

Ana Forcinito es Profesora de estudios culturales latinoamericanos en el Departamento de Español y Portugués de la Universidad de Minnesota. Es Profesora Afiliada en el Programa de Derechos Humanos, en el Departamento de Estudios de Género, Mujeres y Sexualidades , el Programa Graduado de Estudio de Imágenes en Movimiento  y el Centro Interdisciplinario del Estudios Globales. Su investigación se centra en aproximaciones interdisciplinarias al testimonio latinoamericano y a los estudios de memoria y los estudios de género,. Tambien se especializa en estudios de cine argentino, en particular, cine dirigido por mujeres, y la articulación de la estética audiovisual, especialmente la auditiva, la voz y su desincronización de la imagen. Es autora de Memorias y nomadías: géneros y cuerpos en los márgenes del posfeminismo (2004), Los umbrales del testimonio: entre las narraciones de los sobrevivientes y las marcas de la posdictadura (2012), Oyeme con los ojos: cine, mujeres, voces, visiones (2018, y su traducción al inglés de 2022) y de Intermittences: Memory, Justice and the Poetics of the Visible (2019). Ha publicado varios volúmenes colectivos, entre ellos, Layers of Memory (Hispanic Issues, 2014), Poner el cuerpo (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2017), y Generación Hijes (Hispanic Issues on Line, 2022) entre otros. Es la editora ejecutiva de Hispanic Issues (Vanderbilt University Press) y Hispanic Issues on Line (University of Minnesota) y editora asociada de literatura y estudios culturales en la Editorial A Contracorriente (North Carolina State University). 

Carolyn Fornoff is assistant professor of Latin American studies at Cornell University. Her work examines how Mexican and Central American cultural production responds to environmental crisis. Her first monograph, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change, was recently published in 2024 with Vanderbilt University Press in their Critical Mexican Studies series. She is also the co-editor of two volumes in the environmental humanities: Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema (SUNY Press, 2021). 

Osiris Aníbal Gómez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His areas of expertise include contemporary bilingual Indigenous literatures of Mexico. His work explores the condition, aesthetics, and social justice possibilities of bilingual Indigenous writers in contexts of violence, land dispossession, and language loss.

Jaime Hanneken is Associate Professor of Latin American literature and culture at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Imagining the Postcolonial in Latin American and Francophone Discourse: Discipline, Practice, Poetics (SUNY Press, 2015). She is completing a book manuscript titled Tropologies of Latinité: Race and Space in the Circum-Atlantic, 1830-1930, which examines intersections of imperialism and race in modern Latin American and Francophone contexts. A second project, titled Criollismo and the Technic of Revelation, studies racial constructions of the native in South America. 

Héctor Hoyos  es Profesor del Departamento de Culturas Ibéricas y Latinoamericanas, así como del Departmento de Literatura Comparada, de la Universidad de Stanford, en California. Dirige allí mismo el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos y el Centro de Estudios sobre la Novela. Es autor de los libros Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (2015), sobre representaciones latinoamericanas a contrapelo de la globalización, y Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America (2019), sobre nuevos materialismos y resistencia en la narrativa latinoamericana de los siglos XX y, principalmente, XXI. Ambas obras fueron publicadas por la editorial de la Universidad de Columbia, en Nueva York. La primera apareció en traducción al español bajo el sello Crítica (2020), y la segunda saldrá bajo Iberoamericana Vervuert en 2025. Hoyos ha sido becario investigador de la Fundación Humboldt en Berlín. Coeditó el volumen Sujetos del latinoamericanismo (Universidad de Pittsburgh, 2023), sobre teorías de la subjetividad en la región, así como dosieres para Revista chilena de literatura (2023), Cuadernos de literatura (2016) y Revista de estudios hispánicos (2014), respectivamente, sobre Roberto Bolaño, cultura material y contemporaneidad. 

Emily A. Maguire is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University, where she specializes in literature of the Hispanic Caribbean and its diasporas. She is the author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography (2011) and Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean, (2024), and the co-editor, with Antonio Córdoba, of Posthumanism in Latin(x) American Science Fiction (2022). Her articles have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Small Axe, A Contracorriente, ASAP/Journal, and Revista Iberoamericana, among other places.

Elizabeth Monasterios is Professor of Latin American Literatures and Andean Studies in the Department on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on indigenous knowledge systems, primarily in the Andean region, critical posthumanities, colonialism, and anti-colonialism, with an interest to explore the possibilities of decolonization through a comparative critique of epistemologies, modes of representation, and community engagement. Her book, La vanguardia plebeya del Titikaka. Gamaliel Churata y otras insurgencies estéticas en los Andes (2015) has received the 2016 Roggiano Prize for Latin American Literary Criticism, awarded by the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature. Prof. Monasterios is co-editor of the Bolivian Studies Journal, editor of several volumes on the work of Gamaliel Churata, and contributor and/or section coordinator for A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture (Blackwell Publishing, 2008, 2022), A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in Continental Europe and its Empires (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), and Literary Cultures of Latin America. A Comparative History (Oxford University Press, 2004). She is also a founding member of JALLA (Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana), the largest conference of Latin American Literature in Latin America. Outside the United States, she serves as faculty member for the International PhD at the University of Cagliari (Italy), and as invited faculty at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (Bolivia) and Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Ecuador).

Laura Moyneur is a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her research involves twentieth-century Latin-American testimonios and addresses questions of memory, identity, and justice during and after Argentina’s dictatorship from 1974 to 1983. Before this, she completed her undergraduate studies in Spanish at Saint Louis University’s campus in Madrid, Spain. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in 2020, she moved to Asunción, Paraguay where she was an English Teaching Assistant for the Fulbright US Student Program. 

Eva Palma obtuvo su doctorado en Literatura y cultura latinoamericana de la Universidad de Minnesota, con una especialización en literatura latinoamericana y ecocrítica. Su investigación tiene un fuerte enfoque en las narrativas mapuches y en la exploración de cómo la naturaleza define las subjetividades en las sociedades posteriores a la dictadura. Recibió el Summer Mapuche Language and Culture Fellowship de la Universidad de Texas. Su trabajo más reciente, “Recicla y salva tu pasado. Una lectura ecocrítica de la Av. 10 de julio Huamachuco de Nona Fernández”, fue publicado por Anales de Literatura Chilena. Su trabajo también ha aparecido en la revista Isle y se ha presentado como ponente en escuelas y eventos culturales. Sus contribuciones más recientes fueron en Central Lakes College con una presentación titulada “Cultura mapuche expresada a través del arte en alineación con el entorno natural”, y como oradora y consultora cultural para Atacama, una obra sobre la historia de dos extraños en busca de los restos perdidos de sus hijos enterrados en fosas comunes en el desierto chileno durante la dictadura de Pinochet.

Después de cursar estudios de ciencias políticas y estudios culturales en España y Reino Unido, Gwendolen Pare se doctoró en literatura latinoamericana en la Universidad de California Irvine en 2024. En su disertación, trabajó cuidados incurables en literaturas latinoamericanas y caribeñas para pensar en condiciones, contagios, y síntomas que transmiten y replantean el cuidado como potencia política. En su segundo proyecto de investigación trabaja la viralidad digital cuando es apropiada por los feminismos latinoamericanos, asumiendo que tanto lo digital como el feminismo quedan transformados en esta apropiación. Sus artículos sobre performance, cine y memoria han sido publicados en revistas como A contracorriente, Ideas y valores, y Liminalities. A Journal for Performance Studies. Actualmente, es Visiting Assistant Professor en el Departamento de Género y Sexualidad de la Universidad de Minnesota.

Oscar A. Pérez es profesor e investigador de lengua española y estudios hispánicos. Su trabajo se extiende a campos que incluyen las humanidades ambientales, los estudios de ciencia, tecnología y sociedad (CTS), el poshumanismo, las humanidades médicas y las lenguas para fines específicos (LFE). Ha publicado en diversos volúmenes críticos y revistas académicas, entre las que se encuentran Ecozona, Hispanic Issues On Line, Hispanic Studies Review y Latin American Literary Review. Es autor de Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic Literature (Routledge, 2022), una monografía sobre la relación entre el autoritarismo y la medicina en la literatura de España e Hispanoamérica. También es coeditor, junto con Cristina E. Pardo Porto, del volumen Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultures, de próxima publicación en la editorial de la Universidad de Florida. Tiene un doctorado en literatura hispánica por la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison y una maestría en historia de la ciencia y comunicación científica por la Universidad de Valencia. Actualmente se desempeña como profesor y decano asociado en Skidmore College.

Jorge Quintana Navarrete is assistant professor of Spanish at Dartmouth College. He holds a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University and a master's degree in Latin American Literature from Universidad de Sonora. He is the author of Biocosmism. Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Vanderbilt University Press 2024), which studies a wide assortment of philosophical, scientific, and literary texts, as well as visual artwork touching on the notion of “universal life” and its utopian potential. He has also published volume chapters and peer-reviewed articles in Hispanic Review, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Revista Hispánica Moderna, among other journals. His research interests include Mexican culture, utopian studies, environmental humanities, and posthumanism. 

Luis Ramos Garcia is an Associate Professor, and Director of The State of Iberoamerican Studies Series: Human Rights and Theater at the University of Minnesota. His theoretical / practical approaches connect Latin American art, literature, music, theater, and dance with human rights, political grassroots movements, popular culture theory, interdisciplinary arts, activism, and shantytown cultural traits. He published The State of Latino Theater in the United States (2002); Posmodernismo y teatro en América Latina: Antología crítica (2013) and Textos de Santiago García y de /sobre el Teatro La Candelaria en la Revista Conjunto (2016). He edited Perú Negro: Bailando muchas memorias (2021), and Santiago García: The Theory and Practice of Theater (2022). He was awarded: the 2016 Grand Challenges Exploratory Research; the 2017 CLA Joan Aldous Grant; the 2017 President’s Award for Outstanding Service; the 2019 Award for Global Engagement / Distinguished Global Professor; the 2019 Corporación Colombiana de Teatro Award for his contributions to Latin American theaters; and the 2023 Human Rights  Initiative Research Grant. He is a member of Voice to Vision, a Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies project.

Kaylee Rasmussen es doctorante del Departamento de Estudios del Español y Portugués en la Universidad de Minnesota. Sus áreas de investigación incluyen la literatura contemporánea latinoamericana, el baile y el teatro, la justicia social en las humanidades y la pedagogía de integrar el baile en el aula de idiomas. También es una instructora y bailarina profesional de salón. Recibió su título de maestría en Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad de Loyola Chicago en Illinois y dos licenciaturas en Estudios Hispánicos y las Comunicaciones del Colegio de San Benedicto y la Universidad de San Juan en St. Joseph, Minnesota. 

Margarita Saona estudió lingüística y literatura en la PUCP y obtuvo el doctorado en literatura latinoamericana en la Universidad de Columbia en Nueva York. Vive en Chicago desde hace más de dos décadas y enseña literatura y estudios culturales en la Universidad de Illinois. Entre sus intereses están la memoria, la fenomenología, el cuerpo y la escritura. Es la autora de Novelas familiares: figuraciones de la nación en la literatura latinoamericana (Rosario, 2004), Memory matters in transitional Peru (Londres, 2014),y Despadre: Masculinidades, travestismos y ficciones de la ley en la literatura peruana (Lima, 2021).  Ha publicado tres libros de ficción breve: Comehoras (Lima, 2008), Objeto perdido (Lima, 2012) y La ciudad en que no estás (Lima, 2020) y el poemario Corazón de hojalata/Tin heart (Chicago, 2017), con una edición de Intermezzo Tropical en 2018. Sus cuentos han sido traducidos al inglés y publicados por Laberinto Press con el título The Ghost of You (Edmonton, 2023). Ha publicado un ensayo sobre las intervenciones quirúrgicas titulado De monstruos y cyborgs (Lima, 2023; Chicago, 2024). 

Olga Salazar Pozos es profesora asistente de español en el Departamento de Lenguas Modernas de la Universidad de DePaul. Recibió su maestría y doctorado en literaturas y culturas hispánicas por parte de la Universidad de Minnesota. Su investigación se centra en la literatura y cine documental mexicano contemporáneo que lidia con cuestiones de derechos humanos, afectividad, duelo, trauma y violencia en el contexto de la Guerra contra el narcotráfico y la Guerra sucia mexicana. Salazar, en específico, ha estudiado cómo en la literatura y cine mexicano la desaparición en México es presentada desde estéticas y narrativas que pueden, por un lado, denunciar y, por otro, acercar a las audiencias a entender desde el afecto, la cercanía y el duelo lo que significa este fenómeno. Su trabajo aparece en publicaciones académicas como A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos, Hispania, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies y Latin American Research Review. 

Jun Takahira es estudiante graduada en la Universidad de Minnesota. Previamente estudió filosofía en la Universidad de Buenos Aires especializándose en gnoseología. Sus intereses actuales giran en torno a los estudios culturales latinoamericanos y transpacíficos. Actualmente está investigando literatura y cine asiático-latinoamericanos contemporáneos, con especial énfasis en violencia de género, migraciones y raza. 

Cynthia Margarita Tompkins specializes in contemporary Latin American cultural production, especially film and literature, as well as in literary theory, and aesthetics. Tompkins' interdisciplinary publications Experimental Latin American Cinema: History and Aesthetics (U of Texas P, 2013, 294 pp), and Latin American Postmodernisms: Women Writers and Experimentation (UP of Florida: Gainesville, Florida, 2006. 226 pp.), underscore her interest in theory and aesthetics. Her latest book Affectual Erasure: Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Argentine Cinema (State University of New York Press, 2018, 357 pp.) alternates film analysis contextualized with background on the different Indigenous cultures, with chapters on the history of Argentine cinema, and closes by examining issues of land sovereignty. In addition to having published numerous book chapters and articles in the most respected refereed journals, Tompkins has co-edited five books and co-translated two. Since 2007 she co-edits Imagofagia, the Journal of the Argentine Association of Film and Media Studies (ASAECA). Tompkins became editor-in-chief of Chasqui: Revista de Literatura y Cultura Latinoamericana e Indígena in December 2020. During the summer Tompkins directs Language, Culture, and Human Rights––a study abroad program in Buenos Aires. She is currently working on a book on Latin American Poetic Art Film provisionally titled Lyric Cinema: Latin American Poetic Documentaries and Feature Films.

Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott es Profesor de literatura y estudios latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Michigan, Estados Unidos. Realizó estudios de sociología y filosofía en Chile y su doctorado en literatura latinoamericana en la Universidad de Pittsburgh (2003), Estados Unidos. Entre sus publicaciones están los libros Asedios al fascismo. Del gobierno neoliberal a la revuelta popular (DobleA Editores, Santiago, 2020). La desarticulación. Epocalidad, hegemonía e historicidad (Macul, Santiago, 2019). Heterografías de la violencia. Historia Nihilismo Destrucción (La Cebra, Buenos Aires, 2016), y Soberanías en suspenso. Imaginación y violencia en América Latina (La Cebra, Buenos Aires, 2013).  El año 2002 publicó una edición de las conferencias de Ernesto Laclau en Chile con el título Hegemonía y antagonismo. El imposible fin de lo político (Cuarto Propio, Santiago), y el año 2016 coeditó (con Clemencia Ardila, Luis Fernando Restrepo) el volumen Narrativas en vilo (University of Arkansas-Universidad Eafit: Medellín). Ha traducido de John Beverley los libros Subalternismo y representación. Argumentos en teoría cultural (Iberoamericana, Madrid 2003), Políticas de la teoría. Ensayos sobre subalternidad y hegemonía (Caracas, CELARG, 2011), y de William Spanos, Heidegger y la crisis del humanismo occidental. El caso de la academia metropolitana (Santiago, Escaparate, 2009). Enseña regularmente en la Universidad de Michigan y ha sido profesor invitado a la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; la Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago de Chile; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, y a 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos, Ciudad de México, México.

Carlos Villanueva Rodas is a graduate student at the University of Minnesota. He studied Social Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua. His research interests are 20th and 21st century Central American fictional and testimonial literature; family narratives; social and revolutionary movements in Central America; colonialism and decoloniality. Currently he is working on his dissertation about photography and memory of the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua.