María Inmaculada López Calahorro

María Inmaculada López Calahorro is a researcher at the University of Granada, specializing in Latin Philology within the Department of Languages and Mediterranean Cultures. Her academic work centers on the intersection of Greco-Roman antiquity and Latin American literature.

Education:

• Doctorate in Latin Philology from the University of Granada (2001), with a thesis titled De la tarea del hombre y otras maravillas. Una lectura de Alejo Carpentier desde el mundo clásico, supervised by Dr. Jesús M. García González and Dr. José González Vázquez.

Research Focus: López Calahorro’s research examines Alejo Carpentier’s fiction through classical lenses, emphasizing the integration of Ulysses as an epic archetype and Aristotelian tragic effects (fear, compassion, purification) into his narrative. Her work highlights cultural symbiosis in Carpentier’s blending of European and Cuban traditions.