Staff profile

I am fascinated by the subversive interactions that emerge between ecology, philosophy and culture. My core research examines how the Anthropocene shapes narratives across languages and geographies. As an environmental posthumanist, I engage with nonhuman alterities in favour of a pluriversal and biodiverse planet. My first book reveals how the portrayal of plains geographies in canonical literatures in Latin America is intimately connected to colonialist tropes that imagine grasslands as empty and barren. I argue that such tropes ultimately legitimised a settler ethos that lead to monoculture and extractive sites throughout Latin America. My current research is focused on the links between climate change and contemporary culture in Spain and Latin America. I am particularly interested in the role of women writers in articulating environmental imaginaries that negotiate the unprecedented challenges of the Anthropocene. One strand of my work on culture and climate change is connected to research in contemporary drought narratives in Latin America, which forms part of my second book project. Also as an avid gravel and endurance cyclist, I am also involved in a project that links cycling and drought observatories in Europe and beyond.

I am currently on Research Leave until January 2025.

• Latin American Ecocriticism
• Philosophy of Liberation
• Environmental Humanities
• Brazilian Ecocriticism
• Energy Humanities

Authored book

• Imagining the Plains of Latin America: An Ecocritical Study
  
  Perez Trujillo Diniz, A. (2021). Imagining the Plains of Latin America: An Ecocritical Study. Bloomsbury.

Book review

• Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon
  
  Perez Trujillo Diniz, A. (2020). Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon. Revista Canadiense De Estudios Hispánicos, 43(3), 763-765. https://doi.org/10.2307/26956054
• Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts
  
  Perez Trujillo, A. (2016). Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 43(2), 324-327. https://doi.org/10.1353/crc.2016.0012
• Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography
  
  Pérez, A. (2013). Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography. Estudios Nietzsche: Revista De La Sociedad Española De Estudios Sobre Friedrich Nietzsche, 13(1), 250-252.
• ¿Nietzsche ha muerto? Memorias del congreso internacional
  
  Pérez, A. (2011). ¿Nietzsche ha muerto? Memorias del congreso internacional. Revista De Hispanismo Filosófico, 16(1), 321-322.
• Política de la liberación II: Arquitectónica
  
  Pérez, A. (2010). Política de la liberación II: Arquitectónica. Revista De Hispanismo Filosófico, 15(1), 281-284.

Chapter in book

• Exposed Insularity: Documenting an Island of Waste in Ilha das Flores by Jorge Furtado
  
  Perez Trujillo, A. (2022). Exposed Insularity: Documenting an Island of Waste in Ilha das Flores by Jorge Furtado. In The Film Archipelago. Bloomsbury.
• Fleeing Ilex Paraguariensis: Yerba Mate Plantations in Horacio Quiroga and Augusto Roa Bastos
  
  Perez Trujillo, A. (2021). Fleeing Ilex Paraguariensis: Yerba Mate Plantations in Horacio Quiroga and Augusto Roa Bastos. In Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology and the Global Food System.

Journal Article

• Colonizing Pepe: Internet Memes as Cyberplaces
  
  Perez Trujillo, A., & Pelettier-Gagnon, J. (2021). Colonizing Pepe: Internet Memes as Cyberplaces. Space and Culture Journal, 24(1), 4-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331218776188
• Poética combativa y trasvase filosófico en la obra del joven Sánchez Vázquez
  
  Perez Trujillo, A. (2020). Poética combativa y trasvase filosófico en la obra del joven Sánchez Vázquez. Suplemento Sansueña, 1(1), 154-168.
• Infinitesimal Poetics of the Sedimented Ground: The Pantanal in Manoel de Barros
  
  Perez Trujillo, A. (2018). Infinitesimal Poetics of the Sedimented Ground: The Pantanal in Manoel de Barros. Mosaic Journal, 51, 71-87.
• Galgos en el llano: La ecología oscura del campo en Intemperie de Jesús Carrasco
  
  Perez-Trujillo, A. (2017). Galgos en el llano: La ecología oscura del campo en Intemperie de Jesús Carrasco. Letr@s Hispanas Revista De Literatura Y Cultura., 13(1), 244-254.
• Photographed Metaphors: Meaning, Reference, and Translation in Manoel de Barros
  
  Perez Trujillo, A. (2017). Photographed Metaphors: Meaning, Reference, and Translation in Manoel de Barros. Transcultural (Edmonton), 9(1), 105-122. https://doi.org/10.21992/t9hd02
• Postcolonial Ecologies: The Cross-Pollination of Postcolonial and Environmental Studies
  
  Perez Trujillo, A. (2016). Postcolonial Ecologies: The Cross-Pollination of Postcolonial and Environmental Studies. Trumpeter, 32(1), 38-54.
• La Pampa y sus hijos: el problema de la extensión en la literatura gauchesca
  
  Perez Trujillo, A. (2015). La Pampa y sus hijos: el problema de la extensión en la literatura gauchesca. Entrehojas, 5(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.5206/entrehojas.v5i1.6157
• Filosofar con el pulso ardiendo: El trasvase poético de Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez
  
  Perez Trujillo, A. (2015). Filosofar con el pulso ardiendo: El trasvase poético de Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez. Bajo Palabra., 10(1), 315-323. https://doi.org/10.15366/bp2015.10.026
• El Nietzsche de Walter Kaufmann
  
  Perez-Trujillo, A. (2013). El Nietzsche de Walter Kaufmann. Estudios Nietzsche: Revista De La Sociedad Española De Estudios Sobre Friedrich Nietzsche, 13(1), 107-118.

Other (Print)

• Ninth [Short Story]
  
  Perez Trujillo, A. (2017). Ninth [Short Story] (pp. 16-38). The Lamp Journal.
• The Crimson Steppe [Short Story]
  
  Perez Trujillo, A. (2016). The Crimson Steppe [Short Story] (pp. 6-9). Burning Water Magazine.