Doctoral Student Fellow

Ph.D. Candidate,

The Pregnant Self and the Ultrasound Program: Decodings through Latin American Art and Literature

Tatiana Rojas Ponce studies obstetric ultrasound as a technology of the self, working at the intersection of literary and visual studies, media theory, psychoanalysis, and medical humanities. Her dissertation assembles a heterodox archive of Latin American artworks, propaganda films, medical writing, and pregnancy memoirs to theorize the entanglement of image, sound, and echo localization through which ultrasound mediates between the expectant and the expected body. She is also a human rights activist and documentary filmmaker; her #Darien won Best Student Film at the 2024 Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival.