Mildred López Escudero, a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is the CLAS Andean Studies Working Group coordinator for 2025-2026.
Like other CLAS working groups, the working group will focus on fine-tuning events, workshops, and networks of support and collaboration among people working in the Andean and pan-Amazonian regions. This involves countries like Perú, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, and Chile, among others, as well as these countries' diasporas.
It will provide a forum for faculty and graduate students across disciplines interested in the multifaceted Andean and Pan-Amazonian region's history, literature, culture, sexualities, indigenous identities and contemporary issues.
Previous activities:
- Oct 30, 2024. Chile: "Quintero-Puchuncaví: Imaginación y archivo de una zona de sacrificio"
Dr. Arnaldo Donoso Aceituno – PhD in Latin American Literature and a Master's degree in Hispanic Literatures. He is currently postdoctoral researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with an investigation on early ecocriticism practices. - April 25, 2025. I Andean-Amazonian Symposium. More information available here.
If interested in our activities, please sign up for the email list: https://lists.sas.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/clas-andean-studies or write to
