Inger Flem Soto

Inger Flem Soto is a doctoral student in the Spanish and Latin American Studies track of the Ph.D. program in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (CSLC) at the University of Southern California, where she has also completed graduate certificates in Gender Studies, Translation Studies, and Latinx and Latin American Studies. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Gender and Cultural Studies from the University of Chile.

Her dissertation, “Effaced Maternities: Contesting the Mother Figure in Chilean Thought and Literature,” examines maternity as a conceptual, literary, and political category that destabilizes dominant narratives of kinship, language, and national belonging. Spanning from dictatorship-era discourse to contemporary reconfigurations, the project analyzes how the maternal has functioned as a site of ideological contestation and aesthetic experimentation across literature, philosophy, and political theory in Chile.

Inger is also a translator and co-director of Grápho Ediciones, a Chile-based independent publishing house dedicated to critical theory and philosophy. She recently completed the Spanish translation of Peggy Kamuf’s Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty (forthcoming 2025 in co-edition with Ediciones Macul & Ediciones La Cebra), a project funded by Chile’s Fondo del Libro. She is currently working on the Spanish translation of Elissa Marder’s The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.

• BA Univ. of Chile
• DIP Univ. of Chile