
Dr. Cinthya Torres
Assistant Professor of Spanish Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature
Cinthya Torres specializes in 20th and 21st century Amazonian literatures and cultures, especially from Brazil and Peru. She received a B.A. in literature from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Harvard University.
Education
- Ph.D. Harvard University
- M.A. Harvard University
- B.A. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Research Interests
- Spatial Literary Studies
- Studies on space and place
- Literary Geographies
- Andean Studies
- Indigenous land rights
- Environmental Studies
Selected Publications
- Thiago de Mello; Astrid Cabral; M獺rcia Wayna Kambeba. Cantos del meandro. Muestra de ecopoes穩a amaz籀nica. Colecci籀n Ecopo矇ticas de la Madre Tierra, ed. Pedro Favar籀n, Cactus del
viento, 2022. - Y nuestras voces se inundan infinitas: la Amazon穩a y sus voces en la poes穩a de
Ana Varela Tafur. Golpe, furia, Per繳. Poes穩a y naci籀n (de Romualdo a nuestros d穩as),
Editorial Horizonte,
2021, 237-252. - Con los ojos cerrados, abiertos hacia adentro: Chamanismo y perspectivismo amerindio
en Las tres mitades de Ino Moxo y otros brujos de la Amazon穩a de C矇sar Calvo."; Hispania, vol. 104
no. 1, 2021, p. 89-102. Project Muse, . - Book Review of The Desertmakers. Travel, War, and the State in Latin America, by Javier Uriarte. Hispania,Vol. 104, No 2, June 2021, 307-309.
- Book Review of Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics, by Charlotte Rogers. Revista de Estudios Hisp獺nicos. Vol. 54, No. 3, October 2020, 876-878.
- Book Review of Beyond Human. Vital Materialism in the Andean Avant-Gardes, by Tara Daly. Hispanic Review. Vol. 88.2, Spring 2020, 239-242.
- Contested Frontiers: Territory and Power in Euclides da Cunhas Amazonian Essays. Intimate Frontiers. A Literary Geography of the Amazon, Liverpool University Press, 2019, 67-87.
- Book Review of Portrait in the Andes. Photography and Agency, 1900-1950, by Jorge Coronado. Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. LXXXV, No 267, Abril Junio, 2019, 618-621.
- Mapas de la ficci籀n e identidad en La isla de Fush穩a de Irma del guila. Cornejo Multipolar: ACP y la cr穩tica latinoamericana. October 19-20, 2017, RCLL, Axiara y ANLE, 2018, 134-146.
- On Poverty and the Representation of the Other in The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. INTI, no. 85/86, 2017, pp. 193203. JSTOR,.
- P娶籀梭棗眶棗. Un para穩so perdido: ensayos amaz籀nicos / Euclides da Cunha, trans. by Barbara Galindo, Pascalle Editorial/Biblioteca Nacional de Brasil, 2016, 5-30.
Forthcoming Publications
- A Land with History: The Amazonian Frontier in Alberto Rangels Texts. The Environment in Brazilian Culture: Literature, Cinema, and the Arts, ed. by Patricia Vieira, University of Florida, 2025.
- Entre el r穩o y la monta簽a: Jos矇 Mar穩a Arguedas, C矇sar Calvo y una mismidad de saberes en la Amazon穩a peruana. Am矇rica sin Nombre. 32 (2025), 140-158.
- La potencialidad de la palabra en Estancias de Emilia Tangoa. Ana Varela Tafur: poes穩a (Working Tittle), ed. Yaneth Sucasaca. Pakarina Ediciones/
Universidad Nacional de la
Amazon穩a Peruana, 2025.
Teaching
- Introductory and Intermediate Spanish
- Advanced Grammar and Composition
- Introduction to Textual and Literary Analysis of Hispanic Literature
- Readings in Latin American Literature
- Hispanic Civilizations and Literatures