Luis A. Medina Cordova

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About

My research focuses on contemporary Latin American writing, its connections with economic phenomena and its impacts on the study of World Literature. I am particularly interested in contemporary Ecuadorian fiction. Currently, I am building a publication record exploring the ways in which minor national literatures of the region can provide alternative understandings of Latin American writing and its global theorisation in the twenty-first century. I am also researching the early literary responses to the Covid-19 crisis in Latin America, especially those involving social media and other communication technologies.

Education

PhD in Latin American Studies, King’s College London 2016 – 2020

PhD Thesis: Where are the borders? (Re)Imagining the Nation in Contemporary Ecuadorian literature. Examiners: Prof. Philip Swanson, Hughes Professor of Spanish, University of Sheffield; Prof. Claire Tylor, Gilmour Chair of Spanish, University of Liverpool.

· Supervised by Dr Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela and Prof. Catherine Boyle.

· Thesis awarded the 2021 Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland Annual Publication Prize for Doctoral Students.

MA in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, 2014 – 2015

King’s College London

MA Dissertation: Los que se quedaron: Visibility of the Tradition in Contemporary Ecuadorian Literature (with distinction).

· Awarded Marjorie von Schlippenbach MA and Doctoral bursaries by the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies.

BA in Journalism, Universidad Casa Grande (Ecuador) 2007 – 2013

Awarded Best Dissertation of the Communication Faculty for research on the impacts of printed media on the audience of visual arts in Guayaquil City.

Work Shared in CORE

Articles

Narrating a Global Crisis from Guayaquil in Real Time: Early Literary Responses to the COVID‐19 Outbreak in Latin America

Other Publications

Medina Cordova, L. ‘The War of the Worlds May Well Start in Latin America: Gabriela Alemán’s Filmmaking Approach of Writing and the Decentring of Global Narratives’, Journal of World Literature, Vol. 6 Issue 3, September 2021, pp. 414-429. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00603009

Medina Cordova, L. ‘Narrating a Global Crisis from Guayaquil in Real-Time: Early Literary Responses to the Covid- 19 Outbreak in Latin America’, Bulletin of Latin America Research, Vol. 39 No. S1, December 2020, pp. 108 – 111, DOI:10.1111/blar.13172

Medina Cordova, L. (2020) ‘You’re Studying, not working’. Language Acts and Worldmaking. [Online] Blogpost available at: https://languageacts.org/blog/youre-studying-not-working/

Medina Cordova, L. (2018) ‘La BBC en nuestras propias palabras’. Language Acts and Worldmaking. [Online] Blogpost available at: https://languageacts.org/blog/la-bbc-en-nuestras-propias-palabras/

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Memberships

Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (UK)

Society of Latin American Studies (UK)

Northeast Modern Language Association (US)

Latin American Studies Association (US)

Lecturer in Modern Languages (Spanish)

University Of Birmingham