Professor Claire Taylor BA Hons, MPhil, PhD

I am a specialist in Latin American literature and culture, and have published widely on a range of writers, artists and genres from across the region. My particular geographical areas of interest are Colombia, Argentina and Chile, although I have also worked on literature, art and culture from other regions. Within Latin American Cultural Studies, I take a particular interest in the varied literary and cultural genres being developed online by Latin(o) Americans, especially hypertext novels, e-poetry and net art. I have published numerous articles and book chapters on these topics, and am the co-author of the recent volume Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production (New York: Routledge, 2012), and author of the recent monograph Place and Politics in Latin America Digital Culture: Location and Latin American Net Art (New York: Routledge, 2014).I recently held an AHRC Follow-On Funding grant for a project on Latin(o) American Digital Art, which included a series of impact and engagement events, and a book entitled Cities in Dialogue (LUP 2016).

I would be interested to hear from potential research students with interests in twentieth and twenty-first century literature from Latin America, with particular focuses on Argentina, Chile, and Colombia; in digital culture in Latin America, particularly net art, hacktivism, and digital ethnography; or those wanting to work on comparative approaches to digital culture studies, studies of memorials and memorialisation, women's writing, or legacies of dictatorship.

My second main area of research comprises the intersection of memory studies, memory practices and transitional justice contexts in Latin America, especially Colombia. I currently hold an AHRC Standard Grant which focuses on memory, victims and representation of the Colombian conflict.
In addition to this, I am leading two follow-on projects on archives of human rights and historical memory, and on community museums in the creative economy, both with a specific focus on Colombia.