Maria Laura Martinelli

I am a PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures. Previously, I studied anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires, where I completed my BA thesis in the field of political anthropology, which focused on the 19th century Buenos Aires borderlands. Currently, I am interested in the encounters between political economy, feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies, and indigenous studies. My research project focuses on how the figure of the female captive (la cautiva), so central to the literary practice of the southern cone in the 19th and 20th centuries, unfolds a dynamic between discourses of care and punishment.