Overview
Daniella Prieto is a PhD candidate in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, specializing in twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American literature and film. Her research project links historical retelling and reimagining in contemporary works that retell Latin American national and regional histories through genre fiction: Science Fiction, Horror or Gothic Fiction, Weird Fiction and the Western. She focuses on political, sexual and gender violence, and racial and colonial violence in these contexts, including the Conquest and the Colonial period in the Caribbean, the forced displacement and genocide of indigenous populations in the Southern Cone after the foundation of the republics in the 1800s, and the Southern Cone military dictatorships.
More broadly, her research interests include Latin American modern and contemporary literature, film and thought, Colombian film and literature of the 20th and 21st century, decolonial thought, gender and feminist studies, critical theory, and the psychedelic humanities.
Daniella holds a B.A in Philosophy from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), where she graduated with honors, an M.A in Philosophy magna cum laude, with a thesis on violence against women in contemporary wars from Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and a master’s in Literary Creation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain).