Please Note: This event will be postponed until Fall 2026

This presentation by Juan G. Ramos, professor and Spanish department chair at the College of the Holy Cross, explores how contemporary women writers from or about the Andes mobilize and reshape the gothic to engage with environmental, political, social and gendered violence.

Through works by Gabriela Wiener, Liliana Colanzi, Mónica Ojeda, Natalia García Freire, Sandra Araya and Fernanda Trías, this talk will show how “lo andino” is reimagined beyond the highlands and indigenous subjectivities to encompass entangled histories of landscape, memory, conflict and racialized experience. Drawing on gothic studies and the environmental humanities, it highlights how these narratives generate new “Andean Gothic” sensibilities that link land to layered histories of violence while expanding the contours of the gothic as a literary form.

Hosted by the Department of Language, Literatures and Cultures and co-sponsored by the Center for Humanites, Arts and Technosciences (CHATS).