Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American narrative and culture; critical and spatial theory; critical post-humanism.
BA 2000 Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala.
MA 2006, PhD 2012 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Reed College 2014–.
I hold a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) from the University of Michigan (2012) and joined Reed in August 2014. I also hold a master’s degree in urban planning and studies from Michigan, and was a practitioner architect before turning to academia. My area of specialization is 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and culture with an emphasis on contemporary Central America, Mexico and Peru. My research interests include critical, political and spatial theory, state violence and the languages of resistance, and the relation between culture, politics and the production of space. I have published articles on Latin American guerrillas, insurgent and counterinsurgent discourse, and contemporary Central American literature. I have taught classes on critical posthumanism; the relation between space and power; Latin American revolutions; and immigration, gangs and the drug trade in the Americas.
Christian Kroll