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Natalia Aguilar V谩squez is a Colombian interdisciplinary scholar of contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts. Her teaching and research focus on social and post-colonial justice, gender-based violence, and community building in times of conflict, particularly in Colombian, Mexican, and Argentine cultures. She is currently working on her book project 鈥淎nimated Dwellings: Building Life Amidst the Violence, A Study of Livelihood in Colombian and Mexican Art and Literature,鈥 which focuses on queer infrastructures and homes as alternatives against the violence of machista societies.

Her work has been published in the anthology Latin American Culture and The Limits of the Human, University of Florida Press, 2020, and in Vista, Journal of Visual Culture, among others.  She joins 麻花天美星空果冻乌鸦 as an Assistant Professor of Literature of the Americas.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

鈥淪haking Colombia鈥檚 Artistic Canon: Psychoactive Brews as Aesthetic Practice in Juan Ca虂rdenas鈥 Los estratos鈥 in Revista de Estudios Hispa虂nicos, 2022. (under review)

鈥淧ermeable Bodies: Reading Materiality in Teresa Margolles and Oscar Mun虄oz鈥 in Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human, eds. Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant. University of Florida Press, 2020, pp.80-102.

鈥淓spacio rehabilitado y geografi虂a mutante en Ri虂os y silencios.鈥 VISTA, Revista de Cultura Visual, no.5, Imperial Views: Colonial Visualities and Processes of Visual Decolonization, eds. Teresa Mendes Flores y Cecilia Jardemar, 2019, pp. 55-78.

鈥(Re)presentar lo ausente. La obra de Teresa Margolles y O虂scar Mun虄oz鈥 in Cuerpos ilegales. Sujeto, poder y escritura en Ame虂rica Latina, ed. Nanne Timmer, Almenara Press, 2018, pp. 71-93.

Articles

鈥溌緼 que虂 edad se puede empe[s]ar a torturar a un nin虄o?: narrativa y anatomi虂a de la violencia en Dos veces junio de Marti虂n Kohan鈥 en Andex. Revista de estudios literarios y culturales, no. 1, 2014, pp. 121-133.

Book Reviews

鈥淓mpen虄ar el cuerpo, empen虄ar los suen虄os: ge虂nero, violencia y migracio虂n en Ceniza en la boca de Brenda Navarro鈥 in Revista Baciyelmo, no. 4, 16, 2022, pp. 204-210.

About

Education

B.A., Universidad de los Andes
M.A., Leiden University
Ph.D., New York University

Areas of Expertise

  • Feminism
  • Humanities & Cultural Studies
  • Latin American Politics
  • LGBTQIA+ Studies
  • Literature
  • Visual Art