Fernando Valcheff García is a PhD candidate in Spanish at the University of Michigan. His dissertation uses critical theory to explore the connections between meat/flesh imagery and political imagination in contemporary Latin American literature by women writers. Fernando holds an MA in Romance Languages and Literatures, a Joint MA in Crossways in Cultural Narratives, and a BA in Spanish. His past research has focused on the work of the Argentine poet Amelia Biagioni through a psychoanalytical and philosophical lens as well as on cultural objects reimagining Van Gogh’s life and work from an intermedial perspective.