Alejandra Uslenghi

Alejandra Uslenghi is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literary Studies. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University and her MA from New School for Social research. She specializes in modern literature and visual culture; critical theory and comparative modernist studies; and on the history of photography and modern art in Latin America. Alejandra is currently at work on a book-length project on modernist photography in Latin America highlighting the contribution of émigré German and Easter-European women photographers and their intellectual connections with the mid-century literary avant-gardes.