Alejandro Quin portrait
  • Associate Professor, World Languages and Cultures
  • Director, Center for Latin American Studies
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Professional Service

  • Latin American Studies Association (Colombia Section). Advisory Board Member. 06/2015 - 04/2019
  • Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Roundtable organizer. "Exposing Paraguay: Thinking the 'Turn' to the Right in Latin America". Barcelona, Spain. 05/23/2018 - 05/26/2018
  • XLI Congress of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature. Panel Organizer. "Imaginarios naturales, extracción de recursos y formas de lo político en América Latina." University of Jena. Germany. 07/19/2016 - 12/22/2016
  • American Comparative Literature Association. Panel organizer: "Wilderness and Temporality in the Americas". Seattle, WA. 03/26/2015 - 03/29/2015
  • Latin American Studies Association (Colombia Section). Co-Chair. 05/2013 - 06/2015
  • Congress of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature. Panel Co-organizer: "Poéticas de la ingeniería y retóricas de la infraestructura en América Latina." Athens, Greece. 07/2023 - 07/2023
  • Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress. Panel co-organizer: "Ecologías de la guerra y el posacuerdo en Colombia: aproximaciones desde el campo cultural". 05/2023 - 05/2023

Internal Service

  • CLCS Task Force. Member, 08/2018 - 12/2018. Department service.
  • International Studies Program. Faculty Advisory Board Member, 03/2018 - 04/2020. College service.
  • Teaching Peer Reviewer . 08/2016 - 07/2017. Department service.
  • Executive Committee. 08/2016 - 04/2017. Department service.
  • Speaker Series. "The Place of the Nonhuman: Latin American Perspectives" (Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, and the Department of World Languages and Cultures). Organizer, 08/2016 - 04/2017. College service.
  • FLAS Committee . Reviewer, 03/2016 - 03/2017. College service.
  • Center for Latin American Studies. Faculty Advisory Board Member, 08/2014 - 04/2017. College service.
  • Spanish Section Committee . 08/2013 - present. Department service.
  • Spanish Graduate Adviser. 08/2013 - 04/2014. Department service.

Honors & Awards

  • Summer Research Residency, 2023. National Humanities Center, 06/2023
  • Research Fellow, 2023. Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI), Berlin, 01/2023