Maria Fatima Rodriguez

Maria Fatima Rodriguez serves as a Lecturer at the University of Western Brittany within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, specializing in Hispanic and Caribbean literary studies. Her academic profile is deeply rooted in the HCTI research group (Heritage and Creation in Text and Image) where she focuses on transnational cultural dialogues.

Her research spans Caribbean literature, Hispanic-American language contacts, and the recovery of unpublished works by 20th-century Latin American thinkers, particularly examining Camila Henríquez Ureña's feminist pacifism from the 1930s. She has pioneered critical editions of neglected texts while analyzing conceptual bridges between Europe and Latin America through poetic forms, essays, and visual narratives.

Rodriguez founded and directs the Master 2 Research program Identités et représentations dans les aires culturelles caribéennes, supervising graduate theses through the IRDAC research track. Her leadership extends to university governance as former Scientific Council member (2010-2012) and Faculty Council representative (2014-2015) at UFR Victor Segalen.

Her publications reveal a consistent engagement with

• Caribbean postcolonial identity formation
• Gendered exile experiences of Spanish Republicans in Brittany
• Visual-textual intersections in Latin American art
• Linguistic politics in Spanish minority languages
• Transnational feminist networks
• Intercultural translation practices

Her methodological approach combines literary analysis with archival recovery, often focusing on marginalized voices through poetic and essayistic forms.