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Bárbara Aranda

Doctoral Researcher

Office: Room BA.832, Bajuwarenstraße 4
E-Mail: Barbara.Aranda@zea.uni-regensburg.de
Telephone: +49 941 943-68561


CV

CV

 

 

  • 2024 – present Doctoral Researcher at DIMAS, in the Professorship of Spatial Dimensions of Cultural Processes, Prof. Dr. Anne Brüske, University of Regensburg
  • 2023 – 2024     Lehrauftrag, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Heidelberg
  • 2021– 2023     Research Assistant at CAPAS (Käte Hamburger Kolleg für Apokalyptische und Postapokalyptische Studien), University of Heidelberg
  • 2016 – 2018    Communicational Skills Teacher at PACE UC, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
  • 2013 – 2019    Secondary School Teacher for Literature and Spanish at different schools in Santiago de Chile 
  • 2010 -2011    Research Assistant at the Faculty of Literature and Linguistics and the Faculty of Education, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
     

Educational Background

 

  • 2021 – 2023    Master of Arts in Iberoamerican Studies, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Heidelberg
  • Masterarbeit: “De fantasmas, monstruos, mujeres, dictaduras y otros terrores. Hacia un fantástico de impronta negra en los cuentos de Mariana Enriquez”.     (“Of ghosts, monsters, women, dictatorships and other horrors. Towards a Fantastic of Dark Imprint in the Short Stories of Mariana Enriquez”)
  • 2011 - 2012    Bachelor of Education and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
  • 2007 – 2011    Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics, Faculty of Literature and Linguistics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
  • 2008- 2011     Minor in Asian Studies/ Minor in History of Music, Faculty of History, Geography and Political Sciences/ Faculty of Arts Music Institute (IMUC), Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
     

Scholarships

 

  • 2022 – 2023     Graduation Completion Grant for International Students, part of the Stipendien- und Betreuungsprogramm (STIBET), sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and co-financed by the Federal Foreign Office (AA), University of Heidelberg
  • 2021                Exemption from Tuition Fees for International Students, University of Heidelberg
  • 2011 -2012    Teacher Vocation Scholarship, Government of Chile. 
     

Academic Activities

 

  • 2024        Presentation at the DRV-Sommerschule „Kulturraum Amazonien: Begegnung – Austausch – Widerstreit“, at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, titled “Sanchiu (2021): un viaje polifónico”.  
  • 2022        Presentation at the Annual Forum, Romanisches Seminar, University of Heidelberg, titled: “Entre un poco de sol y un poquito de sombra: un viaje a contrapunto en Ekomo.
     

Research

Research Areas and Interests

•    Latin American Literature 
•    Fantastic and Science Fiction Literature
•    Travel narratives
•    Decolonial and Postcolonial Theory
•    Gender Studies

Current Project: 

“Beyond the Borders of the Hero: Reimagining Travel Narratives in Latin American Literature” 

Narration and travel appear deeply linked from their genesis, from the moment in which the need to narrate arises, to tell what has happened during the journey, to transmit what has been seen or learned. The paradigmatic image of the journey, from the Western European context, is the one that illustrates Odysseus' journey to Ithaca: the hero, as the central figure of the story, stands as the human ideal (Curtius 1955) and gives rise to the heroic ethos. Yet this exact ethos and perspective supersedes others. As Le Guin (2019) discusses, to think about history is necessarily to think about the history of the hero, about narratives of magnificence, of power, of violence, narratives that are constructed from a deeply patriarchal and, in some contexts, colonial lens. The following questions then arise: What would happen if we were to change the form of this heroic ethos, with which we narrate our stories and, consequently, our journeys? What happens to travel narratives when we broaden their interpretative possibilities and when we question dominant narratives? And furthermore, what happens with narration when we shift our attention to other journeys and ways in which they are narrated? 


Teaching


Prof. Dr. Anne Brüske

Professorin für Räumliche Dimensionen kultureller Prozesse

Mail: anne.brueske@ur.de

Sekretariat | Secretary
Mail: dimas@ur.de
Tel. +49 941 943 5966