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Catalina Arango Correa is a Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, where she teaches a combination of Spanish-language courses and undergraduate seminars on Latin American culture. At Princeton, among other classes, she has taught the seminars: “SPA 359 / LAS 329. The Cultural Production of Amazonia,” “SPA247-LAS247. Nature and its Planetary Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America,” and “SPA 368 / TRA 368. Found in Translation: The Theory and Practice of Spanish into English Translation.”

Her research examines Latin American cultural discourses from the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on how they explore relationships between human and non-human nature. She is particularly interested in how these relationships appear in contexts of resource extraction, armed conflicts, and memory of collective trauma, with a focus on Colombia and the Andean-Amazonian region. Her teaching and research interests also include gender and the non-human, translation studies and its practical applications, migration and diaspora studies, autoethnography (a form of self-reflective writing and research), and public humanities.

She is the Spanish translator of the scholarly books The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives by Macarena Gómez-Barris, Out of the Archives and into the Streets: El Cusco de Martín Chambi by Silvia Spitta, and Resistance Strategies by Diana Taylor and Marcos Steuernagel (eds.). Before joining Princeton, she taught at Carnegie Mellon University and New York University. She has also worked as a Spanish editor, translator, and cultural administrator.