Juliana Piña
Sixth Year Spanish Ph.D. Candidate
- jpina@nd.edu
Biography
I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Spanish program at the University of Notre Dame. Before that, I obtained my B.A. in Literary Studies [Licenciatura en Letras] from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (U.B.A.) in Argentina and graduated with “Diploma de Honor”.
My current research focuses on the aesthetic and political uses of skins in Latin America's contemporary literature and performance arts. I study poetics and artistic programs in which interventions on human or animal skins inform political positions, question biopolitical norms or imagine other possible bodies.
For my academic work, I was a Research Grant recipient from the Initiative on Race and Resilience at Notre Dame, a two-time winner of the Graduate School Professional Development Award. For my teaching, I received the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award (2023-2024) from the Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence.
Research Interests
Latin American Culture, 21st-Century Latin American Literatures, Performance Studies, Biopolitics, Affect Theory, Animal Studies, Medical Humanities, Gender Studies.