Professor María del Pilar Blanco
Professor of Spanish American & Comparative Literature, Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages; Fellow of Trinity College
About
Professor María del Pilar Blanco is a specialist in Latin American literature from the 19th century to the present. Her areas of expertise include 19th-century Latin America and the Caribbean, US-Latin America relations in the 19th and 20th centuries, literary modernism, periodical cultures, literature and science studies, and medical humanities. She has also written extensively on ghosts and haunting.
Expertise
- Latin American literature (particularly Mexico, Cuba and the Caribbean, Argentina)
- Nineteenth century Latin American culture and history
- Latino literature (i.e. literature of immigrants from Latin American and Caribbean countries to US)
- Science, technology and literature, with special focus on Latin America
- Latin American cinema
- Literature, film and culture dealing with ghosts and haunting
Selected publications
Media experience
Professor Blanco has media experience, including interviews for the UK press, and has contributed to a short BBC Persia documentary on the work of Jorge Luis Borges.
Recent media work
Languages
English, Spanish, some French