Erica Durante is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III. Before Brown, she held an Associate Professor position in Comparative Literature at the University of Louvain from 2010 to 2017.
Her research focuses on 20th and 21st-century Latin American literature and spans three main agendas. The first explores writers’ creative processes, analyzing manuscripts, literary archives, and authors’ libraries. The second delves into contemporary narratives of repression, human rights violations, and systemic inequality, examining issues of gender, class, and social injustice. The third investigates the cultural implications of globalization in contemporary literature. She has published extensively in Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Studies. She has a wide-ranging teaching and advising experience in these areas, reflecting partly her command of Spanish, English, French, and Italian.
Her dedication to scholarship extends beyond academia, as demonstrated by her involvement in cataloging Borges’ personal library at the Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires, sponsored by the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard between 2007 and 2009. She is actively engaged in public humanities and community-based projects, including her role in the inception and direction of the inaugural edition of the Providence Iberoamerican Literature Festival (FLIP) in 2024.
She is the author of the books Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Questions de poétique et d’écriture: Dante au miroir de Valéry et de Borges (Paris: Champion, 2008), and Mallarmé et moi (Pisa: ETS, 1999). She has edited Los Meridianos de la Globalización (Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2015) and Le Double: littérature, arts, cinéma. Nouvelles approaches (with A. Dehoux) (Paris: Champion, 2018). Her current book project is tentatively entitled: El horror femenino y feminista: una perspectiva literaria latinoamericana contemporánea.
