Alexia Bozas

Professional Bio

Alexia Bozas is a third-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 engage with themes of 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 late-19^th-to 21^st-century Latin American commodity fictions. Her current research project examines how more-than-human micro-connections are being mobilized to confront and resist evolving forms of imperial violence across emergent commodity frontiers in the Global South and imagine decolonial, multispecies futures.

Areas of Interest

Global South; Latin America; Southwest Asia and North Africa; 20^th and 21^st-century literature and film; visual studies; postcolonialism; environmentalism; extractivism and neo-extractivism; environmental Marxism; materialism; commodity frontiers; digital frontiers; mining; agriculture; human-soil relationships; microbial lifeworlds; toxic landscapes; desertscapes; environmental warfare; foreign interventionism; critical minerals and rare earths; crude oil; surveillance technologies; generative AI; data centers; trauma studies; memory studies