Spring 2016 seminar: Ph.D candidate, Hispanic literature and culture
Martina Broner holds a B.A. in visual imaging from the University of Minnesota and M.F.A. degrees from Columbia University (film) and New York University (creative writing in Spanish). She was born to Argentine parents in Caracas, Venezuela. Before coming to Cornell, she worked in the film and television industry. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Hispanic literature and cultures, where her research focuses on intersections between media theory and landscape urbanism in Latin America. She is particularly interested in the notion of nature as media, as well as in the possibility of creative collaboration between human beings and the environment. She is also exploring parallels between media archaeology and historical ecology. As a Mellon Fellow, she will investigate the mediated visuality of the Amazonian landscape to reflect on the ways in which symbolic cartographies interact with material geographies.