Dr. Cinthya Torres

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; Márcia Wayna Kambeba.” Cantos del meandro. Muestra de ecopoesía amazónica. Colección Ecopoéticas de la Madre Tierra, ed. Pedro Favarón, Cactus del
  viento, 2022.
• ““Y nuestras voces se inundan infinitas”: la Amazonía y sus voces en la poesía de Ana Varela Tafur.” Golpe, furia, Perú. Poesía y nación (de Romualdo a nuestros días), 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 Amazonía de César Calvo."; Hispania, vol. 104
  no. 1, 2021, p. 89-102. Project Muse, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2021.0012.
• “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 Hispánicos. 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 Cunha’s 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 ficción e identidad en La isla de Fushía de Irma del Águila.” Cornejo Multipolar: ACP y la crítica 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. 193–203. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45129667.
• “Prólogo.” Un paraíso perdido: ensayos amazónicos / 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 Rangel’s Texts.” The Environment in Brazilian Culture: Literature, Cinema, and the Arts, ed. by Patricia Vieira, University of Florida, 2025.
• “Entre el río y la montaña: José María Arguedas, César Calvo y una mismidad de saberes en la Amazonía peruana.” América sin Nombre. 32 (2025), 140-158.
• “La potencialidad de la palabra en Estancias de Emilia Tangoa.” Ana Varela Tafur: poesía (Working Tittle), ed. Yaneth Sucasaca. Pakarina Ediciones/ Universidad Nacional de la
  Amazonía 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