Violeta Vaca Delgado

(Huelva, Spain) has been a PhD student in the Latin American and Iberian Cultures department since 2025 and is also pursuing a certificate from the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS).

Her research focuses mainly on Spanish cultural manifestations—with particular care for literature and cinema—through the lens of spectral studies, that is, using the figure of the specter or ghost to explore phenomena of political and cultural nostalgia, the inability to break free from the hauntings of the past, and the difficulty of imagining new futures.

Violeta studied Comparative Literature and Mathematics at the University of Granada, completed an MA in Critique and Philosophical Argumentation at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and earned an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Iowa. As a researcher, she has received scholarships from the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid and, as a poet, she held a residency at the Fundación Antonio Gala in Córdoba, Spain. She has also collaborated with magazines such as the Spanish Principia Magazine, the Mexican Espejo Humeante, and the Iowan Little Village.

Academic publications:

Fantasy, dream and desire in the works of David Lynch and Haruki Murakami [Fantasía, sueño y deseo en la obra de David Lynch y Haruki Murakami].  Impossibilia. Revista Internacional De Estudios Literarios, (16), 178–194. [In English and Spanish]. https://doi.org/10.32112/2174.2464.2018.239