Brunella Maria Effio Valdivia

I am pursuing a Master’s degree in Hispanic Cultural Studies, where my research explores the intersections of literature and philosophy, with particular attention to Latin American intellectual traditions. My recent work has focused on Jorge Luis Borges’s philosophy of time as developed in his essays and short stories.

I hold a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and International Organization from the University of Groningen, where my thesis examined radical populism in Latin American politics through a case study of Argentina. I also hold a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, for which I wrote a thesis on the ontological primacy of the Camusian absurd, situating his Myth of Sisyphus within broader debates in existentialism and metaphysics.

My academic interests include Latin American literature and intellectual history, twentieth-century political and intellectual movements in the region, translation theory, the philosophy of time, and analytic metaphysics, particularly ontology and modality. I am keen on investigating the intersections of literature and philosophy, especially in how literary texts engage with questions concerning time, reality, identity, and existence. Beyond my academic research, I am interested in literary translation and creative writing, working on Spanish-to-English translations with Sundial House and writing short fiction. I am also interested in cinema, particularly short films and avant-garde metacinema.