Assistant Professor of Spanish at Georgetown | literature & film of the Andes & Latin America | race, political violence, migration | she/her/ella 🌈https://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lvvk7hyg7s2xI'm happy to share that my article on Cuban filmmaker Camila Guzmán Urzúa's "El telón de azúcar" (2006) is out in the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. For years I've been obsessed with this film and its dialogue with Patricio Guzmán's cinematic response to Chile's military dictatorship.08 Aug 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvvk7hyg7s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lipgkykkvs27I'm happy to share that my article on Melina León's 'Canción sin nombre' (2019) was just published in the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos among great company! You can find the full text on Project Muse: muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.georgetown.edu/.../95211321 Feb 2025 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lipgkykkvs27https://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lik2mtgnns2ePlease consider submitting an abstract for a panel I'm looking to organize for MLA 2026 on Latin American literatures of internal migrations. Feel free to share with any colleagues or graduate students who might be interested in participating. Thanks!19 Feb 2025 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lik2mtgnns2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lif7y63smk2aTomorrow at 5pm at Georgetown Juan Ramos will be giving a talk on Andean modernismo! Don’t miss it!17 Feb 2025 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lif7y63smk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lfarbqvyg22uExcited to participate in these two MLA events! One is a panel on landscape and ecology in Latin American aesthetics, and the other is a round table I organized with Regina Pieck on Hemispheric Indigeneities. See you all in New Orleans!08 Jan 2025 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfarbqvyg22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lf3ilmshek22I’m trying to write something on the figure of “el pongo” in Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos and I’m wondering if anyone could recommend bibliography related to conditions of Indigenous servitude on the mid-century Peruvian hacienda. Many thanks in advance!06 Jan 2025 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf3ilmshek22https://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3le2o32vsbs2kAs a fan of Pink Floyd and Renata Flores, I'm very happy to have discovered her bilingual (Quechua-Spanish) cover of "Another Brick in the Wall": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owjL6EB4Dkw24 Dec 2024 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3le2o32vsbs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3ldlnzo2rvc2yI left DC for the holidays with about 20 books in my suitcase, and the 1 book I actually need right now is sitting in my Georgetown office 🤦🏻‍♀️18 Dec 2024 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldlnzo2rvc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lde3tedqrc26Writing about Yuyachkani's "El bus de la fuga" post-election has been absolutely therapeutic. It's a brilliant work of performance/satire. "Fujimori" flips-off the gathered audience, performs a choreographed tecnocumbia with his cronies, and flaunts fake bars of gold. https://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/bvq83btq15 Dec 2024 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lde3tedqrc26https://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3ldbmvgpaz22gGrading distracted me from the book challenge; now I’m back! Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 9:14 Dec 2024 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldbmvgpaz22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lcqp6isk2k2jChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 8:07 Dec 2024 22:02 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcqp6isk2k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lcnm74zcvs2wChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 7:06 Dec 2024 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcnm74zcvs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lckv4ex5ws23Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 6:05 Dec 2024 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lckv4ex5ws23https://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lciykufij22yChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5:04 Dec 2024 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lciykufij22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lcfthixi4s2oChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4:03 Dec 2024 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcfthixi4s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/tessrenker.bsky.social/post/3lcdagyas5s2pChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 3:02 Dec 2024 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:h36dj326vbjs2xvbo7rdrsb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcdagyas5s2p