Overview
Rosamaría is a PhD candidate in Romance Studies, focusing on Latin American literature and engaging in dialogue with disability studies, medical humanities, and theories of space. Her current project examines the spatiality of illness in contemporary Latin American literature (2004-2021) from Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay and Chile. Through novels, diaries, and poetry, she explores how conditions such as arthritic pain, blindness and contagious diseases reshape the interstice between spaces and bodies. Her project argues that the selected literary works theorize illness and disability as central to understanding the relationship between bodies and space in the contemporary world. Furthermore, her project highlights how literary language registers and captures how illness and disability find themselves at the center of dispute of social, cultural, political, and environmental understandings. Additionally, she is co-founder and member of the research group Space and Landscape. Other interests include environmental humanities and affect theory.
Rosamaria received her BA in Literature and Philosophy from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.
Classes Taught
- ROMS 1113 The Sick, Sickly and Sickening