Anamaría León Barrios
Primary Department: Spanish & Portuguese
Anamaría León Barrios received an M.A. in Spanish Language, Literature and Culture from Syracuse University (Syrcuse, 2019) and a B.A. in Literature from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Caracas, 2016). She was awarded the Gerlinde Ulm Sanford for Outstanding M.A. Student of Spanish at Syracuse University (2019). She has worked as an editor at Fundación Biblioteca Ayacucho for five years. She edited the book Llamas sobre el llanto by Cesar Rengifo, a collection of his main plays, and she also co-edited several books. As well, Anamaria recently participated in the conference “Borders and Boundaries: New Latin American Realities,” The Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) with her text “ Sab de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: un esclavo letrado en medio de un proceso de transculturación.” She has taken seminars of creative writing at the Fundación Casa Nacional de las Letras Andrés Bello and text editing and proofreading at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Her research interests are focused on the analysis of the representation of marginal subjects and their hybrid configuration in Latin American literature. Specifically from the Caribbean and also from those countries that share a common geographic space through the Amazonian jungle, like Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, and Colombia. She focuses on race and its reconstruction in different levels of story and discourse, especially in the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth-century literature in Latin America.