Dr. Juanita Bernal Benavides joins the Modern Languages and Literatures Department as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Dr. Bernal Benavides received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Michigan in 2017. She comes to Rhodes after serving as a Lecturer at Arkansas State University. Dr. Bernal Benavides’s research interests center on literature, film, and photography that deal with paramilitarism in Colombia and Mexico. She has taught courses on contemporary Latin American female writers, contemporary Latin American film, and literature dealing with narco-paramilitary violence.
Articles
“La vorágine: paramilitarismo antes del paramilitarismo.” Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos. Vol 46, No. 2, Winter 2022 (Forthcoming)
“Introducción al número especial. Imaginarios culturales del presente en Colombia: Nuevas perspectivas sobre la violencia en la producción cultural contemporánea.” A contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. Vol. 20 No. 1: Fall 2022.
“Cerco paramilitar en Viaje al interior de una gota de sangre de Daniel Ferreira.” A contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. Vol. 20 No. 1: Fall 2022
“Fotografía epidemia en Jesús Abad Colorado. Sobre el asedio paramilitar a la memoria.” Travesías. The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Blog.
“Jesús Abad Colorado’s Epidemic Photography. Regarding The Paramilitary Siege on Memory.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. 2022
“La violencia del orden de lo maravilloso: Cien años de soledad y la ley de la masacre de las bananeras.” Revista de Estudios Colombianos. No. 54. 2019: pp. 79-87.
Education
M.A., Literature, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
B.A., Literature, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
