• Ana María Mutis specializes in contemporary Latin American literature and film. Most of her research focuses on the environmental humanities, touching on topics such as eco-gothic literature, ecofeminism, and representations of ecological violence in fiction. She has published work in Studies in American Fiction, Latin American Literary Review, Hispanic Research Journal, Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, Revista Iberoamericana, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, and Revista Hispánica Moderna among other venues. She co-edited Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World (Routledge, 2020) with E. Pettinaroli and I. Kressner, and Troubled Waters: Rivers in Latin American Imagination (HIOL, 2013) with E. Pettinaroli. She also co-edited La mirada opuesta: voces de victimarios en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea (Bonilla Artigás, 2021) with M. Jácome.

    At Trinity she has taught a variety of courses on Spanish language, Latin American and Spanish civilization, Latin American Film, First Year Experience, The Latin American Ecological Imagination, and Latin American literature.

    • Ph.D. University of Virginia.
    • M.A Yale University
    • M.A University of Western Ontario
    • B.Eng Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)

    Co-edited Books

    • La mirada opuesta: Voces de victimarios en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea. Bonilla Artigás Editores, 2021. Co-editor with Margarita R. Jácome.
    • Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World. Routledge, 2019.  Co- editor with Ilka Kressner and Elizabeth Pettinaroli.
    • Troubled Waters: Rivers in Latin American Imagination. Hispanic Issues On Line. 12. U of Minnesota P, 2013. Co-editor with Elizabeth Pettinaroli. 

     

    Book chapters

    • "La voz del torturador y la burocracia del terror en La última conquista de El Ángel de Elvira Orphée.” La mirada opuesta: voces de victimarios en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea. Bonilla Artigás Editores, 2021, 25-48.
    • “Monsters and Agritoxins: The Environmental Gothic in Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de Rescate.” Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World. Routledge. 2019.
    • “Visions of Nature: Colombian Literature and the Environment from the Colonial Period to the Nineteenth Century” with Elizabeth Pettinaroli. A History of Colombian Literature. Ed. Raymond L. Williams. Cambridge University P. 2016, 406-430.
    • “Introduction,” with Elizabeth Pettinaroli, Troubled Waters: Rivers in Latin American Imagination. Hispanic Issues On Line. 12. U of Minnesota P, 2013. 1-17.
    • “The Death of the River and the River of Death: The Magdalena River in El amor en los tiempos del cólera and La novia oscura.” Troubled Waters: Rivers in Latin American Imagination. Hispanic Issues On Line. 12. U of Minnesota P, 2013. 145-162.

     

    Articles in peer-reviewed journals

    •  "Consuming Monsters: Borderlands Ecogothic Science Fiction in Tears of the Trufflepig." Studies in American Fiction, vol. 50 no. 1 (2023): 189-207.
    • “'Mi estilo lo confirma letra por letra': la literatura criminal en “El niño proletario” de Osvaldo Lamborghini.” Latin American Literary Review,  vol. 49 (2022): 48-55.
    • “El abrazo de la serpiente o la re-escritura del Amazonas dentro de una ética ecológica y poscolonial.” Hispanic Research Journal. 19.1 (2018): 29-40.
    • “Del río a la cloaca: la corriente de la conciencia ecológica en la literatura colombiana.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. 79 (2014): 181-200.
    • “Del boom y más allá: La ficcionalización del fracaso editorial en El jardín de al lado de José Donoso y Basura de Héctor Abad Faciolince.” Revista Iberoamericana 236-237 (2011): 813-828.
    • “La novela de sicarios y la ilusión picaresca.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 34:1 (2009): 207-226.
    • “‘Enamorado hasta la punta del pelo’: semiótica capilar en Cecilia Valdés.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 59: 1-2 (2006): 83-96.
    • “Encuentros con el barroco: Francisco de Quevedo en dos poemas de Octavio Paz.” Hispanic Poetry Review 5:2 (2005): 32-49.
    • “El cine en Cal y canto: Una nueva visión poética.” Letras Peninsulares 17:2-3 (2004 -2005): 461-76.

    • Contemporary Latin American Literature
    • Ecocriticism
    • Eco-gothic Genre in Literature and Film
    • Violence in literature, perpetrator fiction

    • The Latin American Ecological Imagination
    • First-Year Experience: Inventing Mexico
    • Latin American Cinema
    • Latin American Civilization
    • Spanish Civilization
    • Introduction to Latin American Literature
    • Elementary and Intermediate Spanish
    • Advanced Composition and Conversation