Sofía Masdeu Rocha

B.A. in Letras from Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

M.A. and M. Phil from Yale University.

Sofía Masdeu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Sofía earned her degree as Licenciada en Letras from Universidad de la República, Uruguay. She obtained her M.A. and M. Phil from Yale University in 2022.

Her research lies at the intersection of modern and contemporary Latin American literature, colonial travel literature, indigenous studies, settler colonialism studies, and genocide studies.

Her current work focuses on the Río de la Plata region, examining how historical episodes of cannibalization, genocide, and immigration gave rise to the region’s own fantastic and gothic traditions.

She has published articles in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Journal of Lusophone Studies, and Cuadernos del Sur - Letras (forthcoming), and has contributed book chapters to Educación intercultural y políticas públicas en América Latina (2024) and Derivas sobre teoría: Teoría literaria y Teatro hic et nunc (2017).