Organizers

Co-Organizer

Brenda Odría Loayza is a PhD Student at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto. Her research examines Latin American Literature and Visual Culture where water emerges as a subject that acts upon other beings, forging connections, and serving as a medium that allows for different worlds to take shape. Her research methodology engages with queer theory, the blue humanities, Indigenous pedagogies, phenomenology, and spatial theory. 

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Co-Organizer

Kristina Stajic is a PhD candidate at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto. Her thesis titled "The representations of intimacies in the twenty-first century Mexican novel" is funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). In addition, she researches and writes in the interstices between Mexican literature, queer and gender theory, histories and theories of violence, embodiment and phenomenology. She has recently published an article in the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (UPR), titled “Body, language and heterogeneity in Josefina Baez’s Dominicanish” as well as a book review in the Revista Chasqui, “Book review: Unlawful Violence by Rebecca Janzen”.