Dr Denisse Lazo

• The politics of fiction
• Narrative and film form
• Feminist political theory
• Feminist film theory
• Latin American gender studies
• Ethnographic approaches to Latin American cultural studies

My research focuses on two main strands. On the one hand, I investigate the interdisciplinary relationship between fiction and politics, with especial attention to representations of the political status of women in the Latin American context. My approach acknowledges a dynamic dialogue between fiction, ideology, and a certain social imaginary, and it incorporates historical, political, and cultural perspectives. On the other hand, I am keen to explore ethnographic approaches to Latin American cultures through mixed research methods, with special attention to the political and cultural value of food and questions around domestic labour in Latin America. I have also conducted ethnographic research into certain psycho-affective factors involved in the learning of a foreign language with an emphasis on a broader understanding of the question of interculturality.

I am currently completing my first monograph that examines the more recent narrative fiction of the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit (1949-) and offers a socio-political reading of the literary strategies that her work employs to dialogue with the Chilean post-transition context.

I welcome enquiries concerning research supervision in any of my areas of research interest.