Claudia Vásquez-Caicedo

Claudia Vásquez-Caicedo Rainero (she/her; Lima, Perú) is a PhD student in Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Connaught International Scholarship. She has a master’s degree in Comparative Literary Studies from Utrecht University, and she received her BA in Hispanic Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). She has worked on cultural memory and decoloniality in contemporary Latin American literature. Currently, her research explores how these perspectives intersect with post-postmodern aesthetic practices and the workings of global capitalism in the region, paying attention to the influence of literary markets and transnational networks of mobility and information.