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 doctoral candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University.

In her research, she traces a non-European genealogy of the gothic and fantastic genres in the Río de la Plata, connecting it with the singular history of political violence that has characterized the Southern Cone since the Spanish conquest.

Sofía’s areas of interest include modern and contemporary Latin American literature; the nineteenth and twentieth-century mass migrations; settler colonialism studies, indigenous studies, and colonial genocide studies; sixteenth-century conquest chronicles; and oceanic studies.

Sofía’s peer-reviewed articles have been published in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and the Journal of Lusophone Studies. For a glimpse at her research, see https://ladiaria.com.uy/politica/articulo/2023/5/desenterrar-de-una-vez-los-nombres-del-rio-de-choques-arribos-y-partidas-en-el-rio-de-la-plata/.