Fernando Valcheff-García

My research focuses on modern and contemporary Latin American literature, arts, and culture, with particular attention to critical theory and political imagination. My doctoral dissertation, Dissecting Carne: The Politics of Meat and Flesh in Contemporary Latin American Women’s Fiction, examines how recent narrative works by women writers use meat and flesh imagery to challenge national, subjective, and bodily identity. I have been selected as a Riecker Research Fellow by the Center for the Education of Women+ and as a Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow by the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. I have also presented my work at international conferences, including those of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), and the Transatlantic Studies Association (TSA). My publications include critical reviews, book chapters, and articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Latin American Literary Review, Latin American Research Review, and Revista Iberoamericana.