Research Summary
My main area of study includes the analysis of the discourses of "the politics of the friendship" in the Latin American literature of the first decades of the XXth century; its political and literary relevance, which refers to innovative inter-personal and communal non-normative affiliation relationships, arising in the exchange of ideas and technologies characteristic of modernity.
Education
- Major in International Studies, International Studies Program , University of Utah
- Major in Spanish, Department of Languages and Literature , University of Utah
- Minor in Latin American Studies, Latin American Studies, University of Utah
- Masters of Arts in Spanish, Languages and Literature, University of Utah
- Spanish PhD Candidate, Spanish, University of Utah, Department of World Languages and Cultures, University of Utah. Project: Dynamics of modernity: The discourse of the politics of friendship in the realistic genres of Latin America and their mechanisms of literary production.
Biography
I'm Betty Aguirre-Maier from Latacunga, Ecuador. I'm doing my PhD in Languages and Literature at the University of Utah. I obtained a Masters in Languages and Literature from the University of Utah with a concentration on Latin American Literature of the 20th century. My current research interest is in the discourses of the politics of friendship in the realistic Latin American literary genres and their mechanisms of literary production. Also, I have been working on several cultural and literary projects in South America, specially in Ecuador. I am the co-founder of the Entremares Magazine, a digital cultural magazine that was reconized and featured in the Lassonde Entrepeneur Institute Magazine.
Alice Lovell Kellogg. Memorias
Research and translation:
Alice Lovell Kellogg. Memorias de una neoyorquina en Ecuador, 1916-1928
Published by the Centro de Publicaciones PUCE (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador), 2019.