Current Research: Ph. D. Dissertation

I am researching and writing my Ph.D. Dissertation on Literary Anthologies from the Southern Cone countries (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay) spanning from 1824 to the Centennial celebrations of 1910.

My project analyzes the literary anthology as a metaphoric museum that (re)creates a national literary imagery. As a canon-formation cultural product, I study the selections and national literary paths that emerge in these anthologies through different processes of exclusion; but I also relate their production to different economic and political forces within and beyond the national borders.

Research Grant

Presentations at Conferences:

• LASA 2004 (Las Vegas, NV).
  "Viejos tropos en una novela chilena contemporánea: El Cuarto Mundo de Diamela Eltit."
  
  
• LASA 2006 (San Juan, PUERTO RICO).
  "Anthologies of Silence: Colonial Poets and Nineteenth-Century Latin American Anthologies. The Argentinean Case."
  
  
• LASA 2007 (Montreal, CANADA).
  "El letrado también canta: Interacción entre música y poesía en las primeras décadas de la independencia argentina."
  
  

Other Research Interests:

• Latin American Colonial Historiography
  
• Literary social networks
  
• 19th-Century North American Literature
  
• Journalism and Literature
  
• Reception Aesthetics and Hans Robert Jauss
  
• Latin American Naturalistic Fiction
  

Membership in Professional Associations

• Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
  
• Modern Language Association (MLA).
  
• American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA).
  
• Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI).