Southern Cone Studies

Teresa Basile

Is a Literature Teacher; she holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Latin American Literature and a PhD, all from the National University of La Plata. She got a Master’s Degree in Hispanic Letters from the National University of Mar del Plata. She is a Director (since 2018) of the Centre for Literary Theory and Criticism (CTCL-IdIHCS-CONICET-UNLP). She is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Master’s in History and Memory (UNLP) since 2019. She was Chair —along with Bernardita Llanos— of Lasa Cono Sur (Pittsburgh, 2021-2023). Head of the R&D Project of the Program of the Ministry of Education of Argentina: Literature and memory in the Latin American literary field of the last decades.  
She has published El desarme de Calibán. Debates culturales y diseños literarios en la posdictadura uruguaya (IILI, Pittsburgh, 2018) and Infancias. La narrativa argentina de HIJOS (EDUVIM 2019), as well as a set of collective volumes: Inscripciones de una revuelta. Testimonios del terrorismo sexuado (with Chiani, 2023); Voces de la violencia. Avatares del testimonio en el Cono Sur (with Chiani, 2020); Las posmemorias: Perspectivas latinoamericanas y europeas (with González, 2020); Bolaño en sus cuentos (with Aguilar, Almenara-Leiden, 2015); Lezama: orígenes, revolución y después... (with Calomarde, 2013); Onetti fuera de sí (with Foffani, 2013), among others. She was Director, together with E. Foffani, of Katatay magazine (2005-2015).
Founder member of the following Research Network: la Red de Literatura y Derechos Humanos, where I coordinate, together with Emilia Perassi and Jaume Peris Blanes, the research line “Formas del testimonio: memorias transgeneracionales y transnacionales”, since 2021; la Red de Investigación: Violencia y representación en América Latina-VYRAL, since 2007, and la Red Académica de Docencia e Investigación en Literatura Latinoamericana Katatay, since 2005.

Matías Ayala

Matías Ayala Munita es Profesor Asociado de la Universidad Finis Terrae (Santiago, Chile). Ph.D. de Cornell University. Es el autor de los libros de ensayos: Poéticas de lo viviente, lo animal y lo impersonal (2020),  La poesía de Oscar Hahn. Anacronía, fantasmas, visualidad (2018) y Lugar incómodo. Poesía y sociedad en Parra, Lihn y Martínez (2010). Ha editado Una nota estridente de Enrique Lihn (2005) y La batalla de Artes y Humanidades. Archivo 2016-2019 (2020). 

Carlos Garrido Castellano

Carlos Garrido Castellano is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at University College Cork (Ireland), where he coordinates a BA programme on Portuguese Studies. He is also Associate Researched at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art (Rutgers University Press, 2019), Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future (SUNY Press, 2021) and Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System (Routledge, 2023), as well as of two other monographs in Spanish and one in Portuguese.