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Maria Paula Molano Parrado

Student
Romance Studies

Overview


María Paula is a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Literature from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Latin American literature and visual cultures through the lenses of ecocriticism, political ecology, literary theory, and visual studies.

She has published articles on spectrality in Roberto Bolaño's literature and the role of animals in Colombian armed conflict photography. Her work critically approaches the relationship between literature and photography in Latin American cultural history as well as aesthetics' capacity to address environmental questions beyond western epistemologies.

Her doctoral dissertation examines the desert in contemporary Latin American literature and photography.

In addition to her academic research, she is also a photographer.

Website: https://mariapaulamolanoparrado.cargo.site/

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Recent Publications


Oír el silencio: Paisajes sonoros no humanos en Silencios de Juan Manuel Echavarría

Journal Article Revista de Estudios Hispánicos · March 2024 Abstract: In the series of photographs Silencios (2010–present), Juan Manuel Echavarría portrays the abandoned rural schools in Colombia caused by enforced displacement in the frame of the armed conflict. Unlike the abundant represen ... Full text Cite

Llanto compartido

Journal Article Classica - Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos · March 1, 2023 In this article I analyse how the weep that Achilles and Priam share in the 24th song of the Iliad enables to resolve the conflict due to the struggle of the body of Hector and, furthermore, it is a precedent to consider the possibility of solving ... Full text Cite
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