Overview
María is a scholar from the Colombian Andes. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University specializing in contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts. Her research brings together environmental humanities, political ecology, literary theory, and visual studies. Her dissertation traces how contemporary novels, poetry, photobooks, and art installations interrogate histories of extraction in the deserts of the Americas.
In the summer of 2025, she served as a curatorial fellow at El Museo del Barrio in New York City. Her scholarly contributions have been published in Revista Chilena de Literatura, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, among other academic journals.
She holds both a B.A. and an M.A. in Literature from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), with a minor in Philosophy. In addition to her academic research, she is also a photographer.
