Staff profile

I work on the intersection between philosophy, ecology, and literature in Latin America. Drawing from research in the Environmental Humanities and Latin American Studies, I address the complex relationships between culture and nature as they are manifested in literature. My work has led me to complete research throughout the Americas: Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.

My first book project engages with the continental imaginaries of the plains in nineteenth and twentieth century literatures in Latin America, revealing the settler ecologies behind the metaphors of the plains as empty and barren lands. I have also published on monoculture and extractivist epistemologies in the Chaco region of South America, especially those surrrounding yerba mate plantations in the work of Horacio Quiroga, Augusto Roa Bastos and Rafael Barrett. Having studied under Enrique Dussel at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), I am invested in engaging with the issues raised by the Philosophy of Liberation in its commitment to a decolonial pluriversality.

My current research engages with drought narratives in the Global South.

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

Authored book

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

Book review

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

Chapter in book

• Perez Trujillo, Axel (2022). Exposed Insularity: Documenting an Island of Waste in Ilha das Flores by Jorge Furtado. In The Film Archipelago. Bloomsbury.
• Perez Trujillo, Axel (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

• Perez Trujillo, Axel (2020). Poética combativa y trasvase filosófico en la obra del joven Sánchez Vázquez. Suplemento Sansueña 1(1): 154-168.
• Perez Trujillo, Axel (2018). Infinitesimal Poetics of the Sedimented Ground: The Pantanal in Manoel de Barros. Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal 51: 71-87.
• Perez Trujillo, Axel & Pelettier-Gagnon, Jérémie (2018). Colonizing Pepe: Internet Memes as Cyberplaces. Space and Culture Journal 1-15.
• Perez Trujillo, Axel (2017). Photographed Metaphors: Meaning, Reference, and Translation in Manoel de Barros. TranscUlturAl 9(1): 105-122.
• Perez-Trujillo, Axel (2017). Galgos en el llano: La ecología oscura del campo en Intemperie de Jesús Carrasco. Letras Hispanas 13(1): 244-254.
• Perez Trujillo, Axel (2016). Postcolonial Ecologies: The Cross-Pollination of Postcolonial and Environmental Studies. The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy 32(1): 38-54.
• Perez Trujillo, Axel (2015). La Pampa y sus hijos: el problema de la extensión en la literatura gauchesca. Entrehojas: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 5(1): 4.
• Perez Trujillo, Axel (2015). Filosofar con el pulso ardiendo: El trasvase poético de Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez. Bajo Palabra 10(1): 315-323.
• Perez-Trujillo, Axel (2013). El Nietzsche de Walter Kaufmann. Estudios Nietzsche 13(1): 107-118.

Other (Print)

• Perez Trujillo, Axel (2017). Ninth [Short Story]. 7(1): 16-38.
• Perez Trujillo, Axel (2016). The Crimson Steppe [Short Story]. 2(1): 6-9.