María José Bruña Bragado

María José Bruña Bragado is full professor at the Universidad de Salamanca, where she is vice-chair of the Department of Spanish and Hispano-American Literature and coordinator of activities centered on Venezuelan literature in connection with the former “José Antonio Ramos Sucre” Lecture Series. She specializes in Gender Studies and Hispano-American Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (primarily the Southern Cone and Uruguayan poetry), and she researches the artists and exiles of the republican exile in Mexico, Argentina, and Uruguay. She has published essays, critical studies, academic articles, translations, and compilations on authors such as Delmira Agustini, Juana de Ibarbourou, Ida Vitale, Idea Vilariño, Cristina Peri Rossi, Marosa di Giorgio, Luisa Valenzuela, Concha Méndez, Luisa Carnés, Elena Fortún, Maruja Mallo, Flora Tristán, Diamela Eltit, Juana Adcock, Gioconda Belli, and Giuliana Tedeschi. She is editor and author of the critical study that precedes the selected poems of Gioconda Belli published as Parir el alba, an anthology prepared to mark the thirty-second Reina Sofía Ibero-American Poetry Prize (Universidad de Salamanca/Patrimonio Nacional).