Ashley Brock

Ashley Brock is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Pennsylvania, affiliated with the School of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature, hemispheric American studies, and critical regionalism. She explores intersections between literature, visual culture, and anthropological thought, emphasizing experimental forms and decolonial perspectives.

Education: PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley (2017).

Her research interests include:

• Literature and visual culture of the Southern Cone and Brazil
• Ecocriticism and landscape studies
• Queer theory and temporal studies in Brazilian classics
• World Literature from the Global South

Her book Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America examines how literature mediates place-specific knowledge. Current projects include reimagining World Literature through Latin American ethnographic tropes.

Publications span journals like Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, and Luso-Brazilian Review. Research consistently bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary cultural critique.