DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE

Johan Gotera holds a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Northwestern University (2023), a Master’s Degree in Latin American Literature from Universidad Simón Bolívar (2012) and a Master's Degree in Hispanic Language and Literatures from Boston University (2016). He has taken seminars at several Argentinean institutions such as Fundación Mempo Giardinelli and Universidad de San Martín, and also in the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. At UNSAM, he has taken seminars on Spinoza with Diego Tatián and Marina Gainza, and with Vittorio Morfino from Università di Milan. He has published essays in magazines in Cuba, Venezuela and the United States. He has also published the following books: Severo Sarduy: alcances de una novelística y otros ensayos (Caracas, 2005); Octavio Armand contra sí mismo (Madrid, 2012) and Deslindes del barroco. Erosión y archivo en Octavio Armand y Severo Sarduy (Leiden, 2016), as well as a series of interviews with the Cuban poet Octavio Armand. He has recently edited the book Acercamientos a Octavio Armand in Mexico (2022). His interests are contemporary literature, poetry, Cuban literature, Latin American revolutions, political philosophy, politicization processes and all that cannot be politicized easily.