Irina Troconis

Irina Troconis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures. She obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in French and in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought from Amherst College, and her MPhil Degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include: politics of memory in Latin America, populism in contemporary Venezuela, and digital humanities. Her dissertation, titled Spectral Remains: Memory, Magic, and the State in the Afterglow of Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution, presents an analysis of the politics of memory in contemporary Venezuela that focuses on the figure of the specter; how it is mobilized by the state, how it operates in the afterglow of populism, and how its authority is challenged in works of literature, film, and performance.