Luis Medina is an Ecuadorian researcher with a professional background in journalism in Latin America and Spain. He completed a PhD in Latin American Studies at King's College London. He has taught Spanish and Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester and King's College London. His research interests focus on contemporary Latin American writing. In 2021, he won the AHGBI Publication Prize with a doctoral thesis exploring contemporary Ecuadorian fiction, its connections with economic phenomena and its impacts on the study of World Literature, which is to be published with Tamesis Books. He is building a publication record exploring how the region's minor national literatures can provide alternative understandings of Latin American writing and its global theorisation in the twenty-first century. He is also exploring the early literary responses to the Covid-19 outbreak in Latin America.

Research

Thesis title: Where are the borders? (Re)imagining the nation in contemporary Ecuadorian literature

My research focuses on contemporary Latin American writing, its connections with economic phenomena and its impacts on the study of World Literature. I am particularly interested in contemporary Ecuadorian fiction. Currently, I am building a publication record exploring the ways in which minor national literatures of the region can provide alternative understandings of Latin American writing and its global theorisation in the twenty-first century. I am also researching the early literary responses to the Covid-19 crisis in Latin America, especially those involving social media and other communication technologies.

PhD Supervision

Principal supervisor: Dr Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela

Further Details

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