After studying an MA in Transnational Studies at the University of Southampton, Italia Boliver completed her PhD at the Department of Spanish Portuguese & Latin American Studies in June 2012, where she has taught since 2005. Her PhD thesis was focused on theories of reality and Neo-plasticism in Julio Cortázar’s novel Rayuela. Her research interests are in the modernist European vanguards; exile and its relationship to Latin American modernist fiction, particularly Cuban fiction and poetry; theories of Otherness and the perceptual phenomenon of absence as presence in poetry; as well as contemporary and conceptual art.

She has worked in various publications including the Mexican literary magazine Letras Libres; Editorial Clío; Contemporary Magazine, and the Journal of Latin American Studies, among others.

Research Interests

• The relationship between the European modernist avant-gardes and Latin American fiction of the second half of the 20^th Century.
•  Theories of reality, space, otherness and absence in fiction.
•  Visual aspects of the literary text, including ekphrasis.
•  Interior and exterior exile in relation to narratives of the Self in Latin American and Spanish modernist fiction and poetry.
•  Gender Studies and Postmodernism.

Teaching

Italia Boliver teaches modules in Spanish Language and Latin American Culture and Narrative.