Research Topics

The group members’ research interests and areas of investigation include:

• Conservatism and literature in Latin America (19th century)
• Costumbrismo
• Film and commercial branding
• Customs, manners, and regional perspectives in Central American narratives
• The place of women in Latin American society
• Populism
• Argentine Peronism
• Ageing studies
• Translation studies
• Peruvian female entrepreneurs in the United States
• Migration
• Narrative and visual strategies in Latin American documentaries
• Idiosyncrasies of the hard-boiled crime genre in the Southern Cone: space, language and attitudes
• Musical hybrids in 21st-century Lima
• Language attitudes in the Spanish-speaking Antilles
• Linguistic variation in Central America (Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama)
• Avant-garde and Central American literature
• Salarrué's works

Many of these topics are studied in a national, regional, and international perspective.