DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE

Felipe Gutiérrez Franco
FelipeGutierrez2024@u.northwestern.edu

Felipe Gutiérrez Franco holds a B.A. in Literary Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and a M.A. in Latin American Literature and Culture from the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, also in Bogotá. His areas of interest include: Long nineteenth century Latin American and Iberian cultures, Gender Studies, Visual Studies and Material Culture. His research focuses on the construction of the concept of “Patrimonio” in Colombia and Spain, and the ways it has been shaped and depicted by the cultural industry in a transatlantic perspective. He joined the Ph.D in Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University in 2019.