Carolina Sánchez is a Zemurray-Stone Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. She received her PhD in Latin American Literature and Culture from Rutgers-New Brunswick as a Fulbright scholar. She also holds an MA in Literary Criticism and a BA in Philosophy from the National University of Colombia. Since 2020, she has been one of the editors of the online Plataforma Latinoamericana de Humanidades Ambientales. Some of her publications include: “La tierra y la sombra: cine háptico, violencia ambiental y desplazamiento forzado en Colombia” in Tekoporá. Revista Latinoamericana de Humanidades Ambientales y Estudios Territoriales (2021); “Public secrets, private violence: A reading of Laura Restrepo’s Delirio” in the book Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production, Routledge (2022); “La represa es una forma de frontera. Una noción de memoria histórica ambiental a partir de la obra de Carolina Caycedo” in Revista Escritos (2024); and “The Material and Geological Writing of Cristina Rivera Garza” in Asap Review (2024). She is the coeditor and author of the book Un gabinete para el futuro and the author of the bilingual poetry book Viaje / Voyage. She is currently working on publications about environmental issues related to plants and water in intermedial artworks from Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela

Portrait by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg