Spring 2016 seminar: Ph.D.candidate, romance studies
Katryn Evinson is a second-year Ph.D. student in romance studies at Cornell. She holds a licenciatura in humanities with a concentration in philosophy from Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, Spain (2009); and a M.A. in aesthetics and contemporary art theory from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2013), where she completed a thesis titled "Failure as an Aporia: The Politics of a 'Disobedient Structure.'" Evinson's interests revolve around questions found in the intersection between aesthetics and politics, mainly within debates raised in post-structural theory, autonomism, and feminist theory. More specifically, Evinson works on forms of political subjectivation in 20th- and 21st-century Latin American and Spanish peninsular literature; she is mostly drawn to forms that essay ways for challenging the logics of representation in thinking of subjectivity. Evinson's project as a Mellon Fellow will focus on the tension between hospitality and community in Horacio Quiroga's short stories set in the Amazon rainforest.