Sophie Esch is an award-winning writer, scholar, and associate professor at Rice University in Houston. She writes and conducts research about the intersection of literature, politics, war, and the environment in world literatures of the non-anglophone Global South, especially in Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Mozambique, and Angola. You can find her CV, books, articles, and upcoming talks here. She is also the founding director of the new Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CELAS) at Rice.

 

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