Alejandra García Herrera
International Research Training Group 'Temporalities of Future in Latin America'
PhD Candidate
Literature
Project: "'A future to be realized': Latitudes of Surrealism in Latin America"
14195 Berlin
Education
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Since 05/2022 |
PhD Candidate, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’ |
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02/2015 – 04/2018 |
Magister in Literary Studies at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá campus |
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02/2010 – 03/2015 |
Bachelor in Literary Studies at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá campus |
Work Experience
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Since 05/2022 |
Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’ |
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02/2017 – 03/2022 |
Proofreader, Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
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08/2015 – 12/2015 |
Teaching assistant of the course “Latin American Literature in the XIX century”, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. |
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09/2014 – 08/2015 |
Research assistant at the project “Humanities in the Era of Excellence”, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. |
Project: "'A future to be realized': Latitudes of Surrealism in Latin America"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Susanne Klengel, Freie Universität Berlin
The objective of this research is to trace the influence of Surrealism in the process of searching for a Latin American identity in the art and literature of the second half of the 20th century, through the reading and analysis of artists with production in different fields (criticism, poetry, painting, narrative, photography), in order to achieve a broader perspective of the scope, mutations, and relevance of the surrealist contributions in the continent. In this research, the search for a Latin American identity in art is understood as a process of projection into the future and as the framework of the different aspirations of a transnational community of artists. For this purpose, a reconstruction is made of the sociocultural field in which surrealism was received, based on the idea that these conditions influence the way each author reads the movement. Then, changes in the critical, epistolary, or essayistic work of the authors and their literary and pictorial works are identified to elucidate the evolution of their conceptions about art and literature and its relationship with the surrealist worldview. In addition to the contributions to the study of surrealism, this research seeks to provide a different perspective to the analysis of the processes of identity construction through art in the continent.
Monograph
García-Herrera, Alejandra (2018): El Espejo invertido: una lectura del surrealismo a través de Fernando Charry Lara y Emilio Adolfo Westphalen (Master thesis, Universidad Nacional de Colombia).
Articles
García-Herrera, Alejandra (2015): "Crisis and Transformation in Higher Education: The Role of the Humanities in Latin America", Literatura: Teoría, Historia, Crítica 17, 2: 79-96.
García-Herrera, Alejandra. "Fernando Charry Lara and the Reception of Surrealism in Colombia". Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, 47, 2 (2020): 37-54.
