Dr. Candela Marini

KWI International Fellow

Academic Career

Since 2020
Co-Host of New Books Network and New Books Network-Español

Since 2018
Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies and Spanish at the Milwaukee School of Engineering;
Co-Director of MSOE Honors Program;
Coordinator of Spanish Minor

2018
Ph.D. Romance Studies, Duke University.

2014
M.A. in Romance Studies, Duke University.

2012
M.A. in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies, Freie Universität. Berlin.

2010
Project Year, European College of Liberal Arts (Today: Bard College Berlin), Berlin.

2008
B.A. (Licenciatura) in History, Torcuato di Tella University. Buenos Aires.


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Latin American cultural history
  • 19th-century visual culture
  • war photography
  • nation-building and neocolonial processes
  • media and communication history
  • Latin American contemporary literature

PUBLICATIONS

  • Images at the Front: War Photography and Visual Citizenship in Chile and Argentina (1860s-1880s). Manuscript in progress.
  • “La guerra del Pacífico (1879-1883) en la fotografía bélica de Díaz y Spencer” Cultura Visual e innovaciones tecnológicas en América Latina (siglo XIX). Ed. Beatriz González-Stephan. Frankfurt/Madrid: Vervuert Verlag, Editorial Iberoamericana (forthcoming).
  • “The Paraguayan War Imagined (1865 – 1870).” Latin American Literature in Transition, Vol. II, 1800-1870. Eds. Ana Peluffo and Ronald Briggs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
  • “Mastering War Photography: Díaz & Spencer’s coverage of the War of the Pacific (1879-1883).” Foto-Cinema. Revista Científica de Cine y Fotografía, n. 22, January 2021.
  • “El patriotismo del Correo del Domingo (1864-1868): ficciones de guerra y soldados.” Dossier: “La página gráfica. Intermedialidades del impreso ilustrado.” InMediaciones de la Comunicación, vol. 13, December 2017.