Alumna Sarli Mercado Promoted
Sarli E. Mercado, a 2007 graduate of our doctoral program in Spanish Language & Literatures, has been promoted to Full Teaching Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Congratulations!
Mercado is a literary critic and author of Cartografías del destierro: en torno a la poesía de Juan Gelman y Luisa Futoransky. (Cartographies of Exile: On the Poetry of Juan Gelman and Luisa Futoransky)(Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor, 2008). She has published and presented her work on contemporary Spanish American poetry in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Her current research projects include a study of lyrical landscapes in poetic and visual art expressions by Latin American artists linking urban and non-urban environments to ecological thinking. This project is also tied to the study of literary/artistic representation and production and the proliferation of traumatic memory sites in urban spaces in Latin America in dialogue with the “Global South.” Included in her research are topics related to contemporary Southern Cone poets and the literary practices of twenty first century Spanish American writers. Sarli teaches courses on Spanish American literature, culture, and language through subjects such as cultural journalism, translation, and urban cultural studies. She is also part of collaborative interdisciplinary projects between UW-Madison and the Museum of Environmental Sciences (MCA) from the University of Guadalajara and co-directs the 4W-International Women Collective Translation Project.