Education
M.A. Latin American Studies, Universidad de Chile (2023).
B.A. Education in Spanish. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2018).
B.A. Hispanic Linguistics and Literatures, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2017).
Research
I am Isidora and I was born and raised in Chile. I am mainly interested in Indigenous and Indigenist literature from Latin America (20th and 21st century); popular poetry and folkloric manifestations from Latin America; and gender studies in Latin America. In particular, I am interested in how female writers from the 20th century represented indigenous people and women in both their narrative and poetic works. In concrete, I have had the opportunity to research about the indigenist perspective of Rosario Castellanos in two novels and books of poems: El rescate del mundo (1952), Balún Canán (1957), Salomé y Judith (1960), and Oficio de tinieblas (1962). Regarding traditional and folk poetry from Chile, I have researched Rosa Araneda (a female writer from the Lira Popular Chilena), as well as some of the work written by Violeta Parra.
I enjoy writing décimas, which is a folk tradition from Chile. I am a decimista and a payadora from my country.
Publications
“Las múltiples caras de la herida: Emociones de pueblo, cuerpo y lenguaje en Río herido de Daniela Catrileo” [The many faces of the wound: A people’s emotions, body and language in Daniela Catrileo’s Río herido]. In: Afecto y emoción en las literaturas hispánicas: De la Edad Moderna a nuestros días [Affect and emotion in Hispanic literatures: From the modern age to the present day]. España, Editorial Sindéresis (October 2025).
“Salomé y Judith (1959) de Rosario Castellanos: construcción del/la indígena e interseccionalidad en un poema dramático sobre la Revolución Mexicana” [Salomé y Judith (1959) by Rosario Castellanos: construction of the indigenous and intersectionality in a dramatic poem about the Mexican Revolution]. Santiago, Revista Meridional (October 2024). https://meridional.uchile.cl/index.php/MRD/article/view/76346
“Décima para el rito” [Décima for the ceremony]. In: El cielo será como un río. Poemas y cantos de sanadoras, guerreras y guardianas de la naturaleza del Chile Plurinacional [The sky will be like a river. Poems and songs of healers, warriors and guardians of nature from Plurinational Chile]. Compilers: Rubí Carreño Bolívar and María José Barros Cruz. Santiago, 2022: FCE, p. 56.
Presentations
Encuentro “Una estrella, una figura. Expansiones de la Licenciatura en Letras: Investigación, creación y más allá”. Mesa 3: La diosa de todas las máscaras (Creación, investigación y pedagogía literaria). Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile [Conference “A Star, a figure. Expansions of the Bachelor of arts: Research, creation and beyond”. Panel 3: The Goddess of all masks (Creation, research, and Literary Pedagogy)] (2024).
I Encuentro nacional de músicas tradicionales y folclóricas [First national meeting of traditional and folk music], Universidad Mayor. Talk: “De versos y rimas trasplantadas: un acercamiento crítico a las narraciones canónicas sobre el origen del Canto a lo poeta” [Of transplanted verses and rhymes: a critical approach to the canonical narrations on the origin of Canto a lo poeta] (2022).
1er Congreso Liminal: Tensionar, desbordar y transformar [First Liminal Congress: Tensioning, overflowing and transforming], Institute of Advanced Studies, Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Talk: “Somos pueblo: la identidad mapuche y la memoria diaspórica/migrante en Río herido de Daniela Catrileo” [We are a people: Mapuche identity and the diasporic/migrant memory in Daniela Catrileo’s Río herido] (2021).