Alexia Bozas
Education
Professional Bio
Alexia Bozas is a second-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature and Visual Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her scholarship is grounded in an interdisciplinary South-South decolonial framework, where she examines how contemporary Latin American and Middle Eastern literature and film depict global extractivist violence and its entanglement within broader systems of imperial power. She is particularly interested in tracing representations of human-soil relationships and microbial lifeworlds in speculative fiction. Her current research project examines how more-than-human micro-connections are being mobilized to confront and resist evolving forms of imperial violence in the Global South and imagine decolonial, multispecies futures.
Areas of Interest
Global South; Latin America; Middle East; 20th and 21st-century; contemporary literature and film; visual studies; environmental humanities; human-soil relationships; human-animal relationships; toxic landscapes; speculative futures; environmental warfare; migration, displacement, and exile; torture, death, and forced disappearance; counterinsurgency and foreign interventionism; mineral studies; extractivism; state terror; surveillance; trauma studies; memory studies