Pablo Obando Guzmán

I am a fourth-year PhD student in the Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture department. I spend most of my time hanging out with (my) dogs, playing fútbol, swimming, and reading and writing literature. For my research, I am interested in the contemporary role of the social and political tensions that emerge around literature in Latin American culture: high culture and popular culture, the written and the visual, the digital and the material object, canonical and new readers, production and circulation, reading and criticism/research, and intellectual commitment and mass consumption. To address these, I am working on fútbol literature in Argentina during the 20th and 21st centuries and how its writing and the limits of its circulation reflect how nostalgia, class, and nation are still main shapers of the ways in which Latin America relates with literature.