Spring 2016 seminar: Ph.D.candidate, romance studies
Matías Borg Oviedo is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell. He holds a bachelor's degree in modern literature from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, where he focused on contemporary literature from the southern cone. His research interests include the links between aesthetics and politics, modernity, critical theory, and biopolitics in contemporary Latin American literature and film. His current research deals with problems regarding poetics and politics in 20th century art. As part of his Mellon Fellowship, Borg Oviedo intends to explore the industrial exploitation of rubber and forms of resistance and commonality within the context of the Amazon rainforest.