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Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Research Topics:

  • Intersection of critical theory and literature
  • Visual arts, film, and politics

Current Research Project:

  • “Soccer Travelers: The Amazing Journey of Franz Platko and Mirko Jozic in Chile: Revolution in the Field, Memory, and National Identity”

Recent News/Publications/Talks:

He is the author of three books:

  • Revoluciones que no fueron: ¿Arte o política? Más allá de realismos y vanguardias en América Latina (Cuarto Propio, 2013) studies the 1920s and 1930s in Ecuador and Chile, analyzing political discourses, political performances and economic crisis alongside novels, short stories, manifestos, poetry, and literary and political magazines and journals.
  • En tiempo fugitivo: Narrativas latinoamericanas contemporáneas (Universidad Alberto Hurtado UP, 2016), is an interpretation of Latin America’s recent literature that provides a panoramic and critical interpretation of the last 30 years.
  • His current book project “Gaze of Modernity: The Spy, The Writer, and the Archive in Latin America’s Cold War,” is a social, political, cultural and aesthetic analysis of the relations between secret police agencies and intellectuals and writers.

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Past Research Topics:

  • Revoluciones que no fueron: ¿Arte o política? Más allá de realismos y vanguardias en América Latina (Cuarto Propio, 2013)
  • En tiempo fugitivo: Narrativas latinoamericanas contemporáneas (Universidad Alberto Hurtado UP, 2016)