University Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile

 

Visiting Researcher
Duration of stay: 14 April – 2 May 2025

Dr Lucía Stecher is a Full Professor in the Department for Language and Literature at the University Alberto Hurtado. Her research and teaching areas include Latin American and Caribbean Literature, Literature and Migration, Afro Diasporic intellectual production, and Women's Writing. She has studied the literary production of several Caribbean women writers, including Edwidge Danticat, Michelle Cliff, Dionne Brand, and Jamaica Kincaid. Her research is part of the fields of diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and intersectionality. The National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development of Chile (FONDECYT) has fully funded her research, which has awarded her four consecutive grants as Principal Investigator. She was also responsible for the Chilean group in the project ConnecCaribbean (https://conneccaribbean.com/). She has authored various academic publications, including books, journal articles, chapters, and literary reviews. She has translated into Spanish the books Create Dangerously. The Immigrant Artist at Work and Claire of the Sealight by Edwidge Danticat and A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand