Fernando Valcheff García

Fernando VALCHEFF GARCIA is a PhD student in Romance Languages and Literatures: Spanish at the University of Michigan. He holds a BA in Spanish Language and Literature (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata) and an Erasmus Mundus MA in Crossways in Cultural Narratives (University of St Andrews / Universidad de Santiago de Compostela / Universidade NOVA de Lisboa). His early work examined the use of painting and musical matter in the poetic production of Argentine author Amelia Biagioni under a psychoanalytical and philosophical lens. In his master’s dissertation, he utilized a comparative intermedial framework to explore the relations between literature, audiovisual art, and digital technology in four artworks from the Americas and Europe based on Vincent van Gogh’s life and oeuvre. His current research focuses on contemporary Latin American literature and culture with an emphasis on the work of emerging women storytellers and their role in challenging hegemonic discourse in the Southern Cone.