Current PhD Students at the Centre of Latin American Studies
An asterisk * denotes a student who is a member of CLAS via the Latin American Cultural Studies Consortium.
David Bailey *
Research Topic: Currently working on same-sex desire in the novels of nineteenth-century Portuguese author Eça de Queirós
Supervisors: Prof Maria Manuel Lisboa and Prof Brad Epps
Email: djb211@cam.ac.uk
Emily Baker
Research Topic: Nazism and the Second World War in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Supervisor: Dr Rory O’Bryen
E-mail: eb496@cam.ac.uk
Oliver Balch
Research Topic: Pulp fictions: An ethnographic critique of the use of Corporate Responsibility in Foreign Direct Investment
Supervisor: Dr Sian Lazar
E-mail: owb20@cam.ac.uk
Lucy Bollington
Research Topic: Necro-polis: Political and Aesthetic Economies of Deathly Excess in Experimental Mexican Culture (1990-present)
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
Email: ljb82@cam.ac.uk
Liliana Chávez Díaz *
Research Topic: The relationship between journalism and fiction, focusing on representing Otherness in Latin American Documentary Narratives, in late 20th Century
Supervisor: Prof Steven Boldy
Email: lgc24@cam.ac.uk
Katy Critchfield
Research Topic: The Intersections of Politics and Aesthetics in Post-Dictatorship Southern Cone Culture
Supervisor: Dr Rory O’Bryen
E-mail: kc289@cam.ac.uk
James Douglas
Research Topic: An ethnography of western Amazonian curanderismo apprenticeship
Supervisor: Dr Françoise Barbira Freedman
E-mail: sjd78@cam.ac.uk
Carlos Ezcurra
Research Topic: Body and Subjectivity in Contemporary Argentine Film
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
E-mail: cee28@cam.ac.uk
Jessica Fernandez de Lara Harada
Research Topic: Encounters between East Asia and Latin America through an examination of Japanese migration to Mexico from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century
Supervisor: Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa
E-mail: jaf83@cam.ac.uk
Lucy Foster*
Research Topic: Literary and visual culture associated with the Mexican coastline
Supervisor: Dr Erica Segre
email: lf383@cam.ac.uk
Helen Glaisher-Hernández *
Research Topic: Postcolonialism and cultural identity in twentieth-century Latin American classical music
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
Email: hg227@cam.ac.uk
Rosanna Hunt*
Research Topic:
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen
email: rh649@cam.ac.uk
Paul Hyland *
Research Topic: A comparative study of experimental fiction in the Iberian Peninsula from the 19th Century to the present day
Supervisor: Prof Steven Boldy
Email: ph379@cam.ac.uk
Alejandro Lerch
Research Topic: Drug Trafficking and the state or Mexico
Supervisor: Dr Graham Denyer-Willis
email: al771@cam.ac.uk
Katherine Anne Mato
Research Topic: Gender and Space in Contemporary Cuban Art
Supervisor: Dr. Erica Segre
E-mail: kam95@cam.ac.uk
Paul Merchant
Research Topic: Figures of house and home in contemporary Argentine and Chilean cinema
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Email: pm437@cam.ac.uk
Rachell Sánchez-Rivera
Research Topic: Race, Eugenics and Sterilization: An Alternative Evaluation of Mexican Reproductive History and Nation-Building Process
Supervisor: Dr. Mónica Moreno Figueroa
Email: rs871@cam.ac.uk
Parvathi Subbiah
Minyan Sun
Research Topic: Zen Buddhism in the short stories of Julio Cortázar
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Email: ms821@cam.ac.uk
Natasha Tanna *
Research Topic: Queer sexualities and transnational identities in contemporary writing in Spanish and Catalan by women in Barcelona, including Cristina Peri Rossi, Maria-Mercè Marçal, and Flavia Company
Supervisor: Prof Brad Epps
Email: nt267@cam.ac.uk
Sandra del Valle Casals
Research Topic: The construction of Otherness and national identity in contemporary Chilean cinema
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
E-mail: sd749@cam.ac.uk
Callie Vandewiele
Research Topic: Mayan textile traditions in Guatemala
Supervisors: Dr Francoise Barbira Freedman; Dr Susanna Rostas
Email: cv298@cam.ac.uk
Elizabeth Vargas*
Research Topic: Conceptualization of narratives that construct and/or de-construct categories that define African spaces, bodies, and voices
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
email: ev287@cam.ac.uk
Tatiana Vargas Ortiz*
Research Topic:
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen
email: atv25@cam.ac.uk
Sandra Velasquez-Alford *
Research Topic: The critical relationship established by Carlos Fuentes and Alejo Carpentier, in their literary and critical works, with the traditional historiography of their countries
Supervisor: Prof Steven Boldy
Email: slv27@cam.ac.uk