I first became a professional in Literary Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá (2017), BA that I closed with a thesis on the essayistic and poetic works of Jorge Gaitán Durán of the Mito generation, ethics and aesthetics. There I systematized the constellation of his materialist philosophy of art in scattered prose texts and examined the violent transgression of his erotic poetry.
During my MA in English Literatures at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2022) I became a pledged Shakespearean and a voracious reader of Woolf’s works. My thesis dealt with medicine and conceit (concetto or concepto) in Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici. It began comparing its conception of a reader to prefatory texts by Rabelais, Burton, Cervantes. I also examined how, conceiving ontological irregularities in the book of nature, Browne’s poetical effort mystically shapes an unattainable knowledge, human reason being imperfect in a Stoic-Christian key.
Now I am PhD student in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, aiming to unearth early modern gestures in more contemporary Latin American literatures as residues of our colonial past and present. I am also piling up notes for a book on medicine and comedy in the Spanish and English stage of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and I am collaborating with some colleagues in Europe in a project on archive, slavery and its more contemporary reimaginations in the Careebean.
Congress Participation
- Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft, Shakespeares Bibliotheken, Weimar, 2023
- “Chains of the Letter: Prospero’s Library within the Oppresive Logic of the Spanish Requirement, a Transatlantic Perspective”
Awards
- Honourable mention granted by the Social Sciences School of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana for the thesis: "Un abrazo solar contra el destino: Horizonte ético y estético en la obra intelectual y poética desde 1952 hasta 1962 de Jorge Gaitán Durán"