Katherina Frangi

Katherina Frangi was born in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina in 1994. She holds a degree in Literature from Universidad Nacional de La Plata and is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, where she studies how women writers from Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s explored and depicted eroticism in their literary works. In 2019, she received the MAECI scholarship to study at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia in Italy. She worked as a teaching assistant for the Italian Literature department at Universidad Nacional de La Plata from 2019 to 2021 and in 2021, she received the CIN scholarship to study translations of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, writing her thesis on Jorge Aulicino and Alejandro Crotto’s versions of Inferno. At UNLP, she participated in the research project “La lírica románica medieval y renacentista en su contexto europeo”, writing an article on pregnant women and painless birth in Berceo’s Milagros de nuestra señora. In 2025, thanks to the RITM and Gilder Lehrman Center’s support, she conducted archival research on Afro Argentine press of the 19th century at the Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno.

Her first novel was a finalist in the 2021 Bienal Arte Joven de Buenos Aires and published under the title Memoria de las especies (Club Hem, 2022). In 2026 she published the chapbook El pueblo huele a moho y a ciudad de naftalina by Oficina Perambulante. In 2025-2026 she served as the Lead Editor of Variantes, the Spanish and Portuguese fine arts magazine, where she continues as an editor. In 2026 she was selected for the Diáspora literary residency in Bogotá, Colombia.

Katherina is passionate about teaching Spanish, writing, and literature. She has received the Reflective Teaching Grant from the Poorvu Center and has developed a writing-centered course in Spanish thanks to the Writing in the Disciplines initiative at Yale.