Andrea Fanta Castro

Bio

Andrea Fanta Castro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages where she teaches courses on contemporary Latin American culture and digital literacies. She is the co-creator of the Our Stories Project. Her current project involves the creation of a digital archive of the Latin American diasporic experience. In particular, she is interested in collecting, archiving, and preserving personal accounts of the migration experiences, recuperating the cultural memory of Latin American communities. She is the author of Residuos de la violencia, producción cultural colombiana, 1990-2010 (Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2015) and the co-editor of Territories of Conflict: Traversing Cultural Studies in Colombia (University of Rochester Press, 2017).