Education
M.A. in Contemporary Literature, Culture and Theory, King’s College London, 2019.
B.A. in English and Philosophy (double major), Florida International University, 2017.
Professional Bio
Alexia Bozas is a first-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature. She is interested in exploring depictions of violence in literary, cinematic, and visual works from dictatorship and post-dictatorship Latin America. Her research aims to uncover how shared traumas speak (or are silenced) across linguistic, visual, and cultural borders.
Areas of Interest
Modern and Contemporary Literature
Latin American Diasporic Literature
Global South Studies
Visual Studies
Memory Studies
Mass violence and genocide
Torture and forced disappearance
Suffering and mourning
Body commodification
Death squads