Maria Del Pilar Blanco

Maria Del Pilar Blanco is a Research Fellow at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford. Her work bridges literary and scientific innovation in Spanish American modernismo during 1870-1930, with a focus on periodicals and popular science publishing.

• British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2017-18)
• Co-Investigator for AHRC-funded Science in Text and Culture international network (2015-2017)

Her research explores intersections of science, modernist aesthetics, and nation-building in Latin America, alongside spectral theory and global modernisms. She has co-edited volumes on the scientific imaginary in Latin America and spectralities, with a monograph on haunting in American modernity.