Sarli E. Mercado

Sarli E. Mercado is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a PhD from Boston University and specializes in contemporary Spanish American poetry, lyrical landscapes, and urban cultural studies. Her research connects artistic expressions to ecological thinking and traumatic memory sites in Latin American urban spaces.

She is affiliated with multiple interdisciplinary initiatives including the Latin American Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, 4W Initiative, Women In Translation Project, and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.