Laura Colaneri

Laura Colaneri is a Teaching Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Chicago's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the same institution (2023), alongside certificates in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on intersections of political violence, horror aesthetics, and cultural representation in Argentine and Brazilian contexts.

Education: Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago (2023); Certificates in Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies.

Research interests include Southern Cone literature, dictatorship studies, cultural studies, Gothic/horror media, and feminist critiques of political violence. Her current book project explores occult imaginaries in narratives of Latin American state terror. Teaching emphases include 20th/21st-century Latin American literature, feminist approaches to horror, and discourses of femicide.

Recent courses include Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Women and Horror in Contemporary Latin America, and Contemporary Women Writers in Latin America.