FELLOW 2021-2022 ALEJANDRA BOTTINELLI
Alejandra Bottinelli Wolleter holds a PhD and Master in Latin American Studies from the University of Chile. She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature of said university and is coordinator of Latin American and Chilean Literature and founder of the Diploma World Literatures: current problems.
Her research and teaching work addresses the figurations of the body in the current narratives of Chile, Argentina, and Peru, and the modalizations of modernity and modernisms in the discourses and intellectual writings of the late 19th century in Latin America. She has directed, as primary director, more than forty undergraduate theses; related to Chilean and Latin American Contemporary Writings. Among her most recent works, published in specialized magazines and books, are:
Imaginar las Postrimerías: escrituras chilenas de los confines (Aisthesis, 2020).
Il futuro che già siamo: 2666 di Roberto Bolaño como frontera del nostro tempo (UZAK, 2020).
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Intellectual Discourse and the Failed Nation in Mexico and Peru in The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies (London/New York, 2017).
Narrar (en) la 'Post': La escritura de Álvaro Bisama, Alejandra Costamagna y Alejandro Zambra (Revista Chilena de Literatura, 2016).
Two books currently under her authorship are awaiting publication:
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González Prada: una intelectualidad radical, (Mansalva Editorial from Buenos Aires).
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Nación y cultura en el Brasil finisecular. La Troya de barro contra la república: Os Sertões, de Euclides da Cunha, (Editorial Cuarto Propio from Santiago).
Likewise, in 2020 she was awarded the prize of the Rector Juvenal Hernández Jaque's Fund, of the University of Chile for the book Retóricas de la violencia y ficciones del cuerpo: ensayos sobre literatura y arte latinoamericanos, that she made and coedited with Valeska Solar and Andrés Soto, and that will be published by Editorial Universitaria, Santiago-Chile in 2021.