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/