Maria Ignacia Barraza

EDUCATION

• BA in English Literature (Simon Fraser University)
• DEA (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados) in Spanish and Latin American Literatures (University of Salamanca)
• PhD in Spanish and Latin American Literatures (University of Salamanca)

AREAS OF INTEREST

María Ignacia Barraza’s areas of research include the Spanish literary generations of 1898 and 1927, 19th and 20th century Latin American poetry and prose, as well as film and the visual arts. She has published articles on Manuel Ciges Aparicio, Ramón del Valle-Inclán and the visual arts, as well as on the theories of Gaston Bachelard. Her latest research explores the traditionalist religio-military myths of Hispanismo as foundational narrative in the works of two distinct writers who fought in the Cuban War of Independence: The Spaniard Manuel Ciges Aparicio and the Cuban José Martí. Studying these texts as privileged narratives whose loci of enunciation is a Cuba on the cusp of independence (a “liminal space” in a very real sense) provides new perspectives on this momentous historical event and elucidates how the myths of Hispanismo were deployed at the turn of the 20th century.