Cynthia Francica
Cynthia Francica is Associate Professor in the Literature Department at Adolfo Ibáñez University in Santiago, Chile, where she works as a researcher at the Center for American Studies (CEA), housed at the College of Liberal Arts. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from The University of Texas at Austin.
Her main research fields are gender and sexuality studies, feminist theory, affect studies, new materialisms, climate crisis and the post-human in contemporary literature and visual arts.
She has received research grants from the Fulbright Association, Social Science Research Council and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among other institutions. She has published in diverse media, including the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Estudios Filológicos and Estudos Feministas, and is in charge of the project “Beyond the Human: Female Bodies and Affect in the contemporary literature and visual arts of Chile and Argentina” (2018-2024), funded by the Chilean National Fund of Scientific and Technological Development.