Princeton University

Susana Draper’s areas of interest include contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts, continental philosophy, spatial theory and prison writing. She is author of Ciudad posletrada y tiempos lúmpenes: crítica cultural y nihilismo en la cultura de fin de siglo (in press), and she is currently working on The Prison, the Mall, and the Archive (Space, Literature, and Visual Arts in Postdictatorship Cultures), a book-length project on spaces and temporalities in contemporary Latin American cities, with a special focus on the transformations of prisons and clandestine detention centers (Punta Carretas, Lecumberri, ESMA and ‘Olimpo’), and the works of literature, critical theory, and visual arts that problematize them. She is also preparing an anthology The Malling of Latin America: thinking about the cities after the cold war era.

Education

* B.A. in Philosophy (Universidad de la República, Uruguay).
* M.A. in Spanish Literature (Louisiana State University).
* Ph.D. in Latin American Literature (University of Michigan).