Santiago Navarrete Astorquiza

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Spanish

Education

2023 · Ph.D. in Spanish: University of Notre Dame. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. 
2018 · Maestría en estudios literarios: Universidad de los Andes. Departmento de humanidades y literatura. Bogotá, Colombia. 
2017 · Literato: Universidad de los Andes. Departmento de humanidades y literatura. Bogotá, Colombia.

Research and Teaching Interests

Cultural and Environmental Studies. Gender and Modernity. Latin American and Andean Literature from the 20th century. Extractivism and Literature.

Biography

Santiago received his B.A. in Literary Studies at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), in 2016. In 2018, he graduated with a master’s degree in Literary Studies from the same institution. He received his Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Notre Dame in 2023. His research explores the cultural production from the Andean region during the twentieth century. Currently, his research project aims to interrogate the ways in which local and transnational extractive industries in the region condition various forms of cultural production with a special emphasis on poetry and photography.

Representative Publications

Publications

2024 · “La función extractiva de la ternura en Doña Bárbara”. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Under Review. Submitted: May 2023.

2023 · “The Normative Environmental Discourse in Pablo Neruda's Alturas De Macchu Picchu”. Exploring Environmental Violence: Perspectives, Experience, Expression, and Engagement, Agustin Fuentes, John Paul Lederach, and Andrew Marcantanio, eds., Cambridge University Press. (Chapter in an Edited Volume). Accepted: Forthcoming June 2024. 34 pages.

2019 · Book Review: “Hoyos, Héctor. Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America”. A Contracorriente, vol. 7, no. 3, Spring 2020, pp. 336-345.

Presentations

2023 · “Retratos de lo humano y lo no-humano en La Habana del 33. La fotografía de Walker Evans”. Graduate Conference. Department of Hispanic Studies. Brown University. May 2023.

2022 · “To Excavate or to Extract: Neruda and Sustainability”. NELIS Global Summit. Sophia University in Tokyo. November 2022.