Eliana Maldonado Cano

Instructor of Spanish 

 

Education

Ph.D In Literature. Antioquia University (Colombia), (2021). International internship at Frei University of Berlin.

Candidate to Magister in Spanish and Latin American Literature, Universidad de la Rioja, Spain (2024).

Master. Earth Science, Eafit University, (Colombia), 2011.

 

Biography

Was born in 1978 in Medellin (Colombia). Engineer, MSc in Earth Sciences. She has a diploma in Didactics of Children's and Youth Literature from the San Buenaventura University, a diploma in Library Management from the Alberto Hurtado University in Chile. She has a PhD in Literature from Antioquia University, with a Magna Cum Laude thesis on the Quechua Poetics present in the work of José María Arguedas.  While working on her thesis she went through a beautiful and strong research process at the university led by Professor Vivas Hurtado, and she also did a lot of hard research, thanks to a scholarship, in Germany, at the Freie University in Berlin. She is currently an Instructor of Spanish at Louisiana State University (LSU), in the United States.

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Some of her published books are: Under the skin (2007), Lunas de sombra (2010), Towards the Pacific (2015), Cartography of the rain (2016), The well of childhood (2018). Other published works are Women write in Medellín (2017), Colombian poetry of the twentieth century written by women (2014) and Stories that are not stories: experiences of reading and writing in Medellín (2014).  In her latest book, Those Women in Miniature (Pygmalion 2019), she ventures into a prose work with 19 stories of women from her city. In this new book she presents her life experience of what she lived and felt in the ancestral world of the Latin American Andes. Her latest books have been published by Editorial Sial Pigmalión in Spain. His latest book titled Wayrayaripay ( The sound of the wind (20230 has been published in 2023 by Editorial Valparayso NY and is in a trilingual version: English, Quechua, Spanish.

 

Her books have been presented in countries like Spain, France, Colombia, Peru, among others. Her poems have been translated into English, French and Portuguese.

 

Guest professor

Guest Professor to Translation and Poetry class at the University of Virginia, United States (2023)

Guest Professor at the Chair on Colombian Poetry, Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. Lima (2023)

Speaker in Diaspora Honoring Mwalimu Professor Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (2024)

Speaker in LASA AFRICA with a conference about African Diaspora and the relation between Africa, America and the Caribbean in the novels to Jose Maria Arguedas and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (2023)

 

Conferences and  Publications

Maldonado, E. (2023). Memoria, oralidadad canto en Africa y America Arguedas y Ngugi wa Thiong'o. I Congreso Internacional José María Arguedas. Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. Lima. Perú.

Maldonado, E (2023). Memoria en África, América Latina y el Caribe en las novelas: Devil on the cross, Los ríos profundos y El reino de este mundo: Eliana M Maldonado. LASA Africa.

Maldonado, E (2019 ). José María Arguedas : memoria ancestral, renovación y politización de las formas poéticas quechuas. 2022, Medellín. The tensions of José María Arguedas. 

Tesis on MaldonadoEliana_2021_PoeticasQuechuasArguedas.pdf (udea.edu.co)

Maldonado, E (2023). Wayrayaripay. The sound of the wind. Editorial Valparayso NY. USA.

Maldonado, E (2020). Memoria y formas poéticas quechuas de dos cantos quechuas incluidos en la obra de José María Arguedas. Revista Syntagmas. DOI: https://doi.org/10.51343/syntagmas.v1i1.1049

Maldonado, E (2021). Representación literaria del ciclo cauchero y la violencia en la Amazonía desde las obras "La Vorágine" de José Eustasio Rivera, "Canaima de Rómulo Gallegos y "Toá" de César Uribe Piedrahita. VII Coloquio Internacional de Literaturas Amazonicas.

Maldonado, E (2021 ). Pájaros que no existen. LimaLee. Feria Internacional del Libro.

Maldonado, E (2019). Aquellas mujeres en miniatura . Editorial Pigmalión, Madrid.

Maldonado, E (2018).El pozo de la infancia . Editorial Pigmalión, Madrid.

Maldonado, E (2016). Cartografía de la Lluvia. Proyecto Editorial La Chifurnia, El Salvado.

Maldonado, E (2015). Hacía el Pacífico .Editorial cuadernos negros, Calarcá.

Maldonado, E (2010). Lunas de Sombra. Silaba Editores, Medellín.

Maldonado, E (2009). Las tensiones de José María Arguedas. Las tensiones de José María Arguedas - Razón Pública (razonpublica.com)

Maldonado, E (2007). Bajo la Piel. Hombre Nuevo Editores, Alcaldía de Medellín, Medellín.

Maldonado, E (2007). Antología “Ellas escriben en Medellín” Hombre Nuevo Editores.

Maldonado, E (2014).  Antología “Poesía colombiana del siglo XX escrita por mujeres”  Apidama editores, 2014. 

Maldonado, E (2005). Revista de poesía Punto Seguido Edición número 48, 2005. Revista de Poesía Prometeo, edición número 74‑75, 2006. 

Maldonado, E (2006). Pluralia, La Jornada Michoacán 03. México 2006.

Maldonado, E (2023). Poesía, Arte y Literatura Quitasol, Edición Número 3 (2006).

Courses Taught

HSS 1000  (2023)
SPAN 1101 (2023)
SPAN 2102 (2023)
SPAN 2102 (2023)
SPAN 3010 (2023, 2024)
SPAN 1152 (2024)
Doctoral Thesis:

Maldonado, E (2019). José María Arguedas: memoria ancestral, renovación y politización de las 

formas poéticas quechuas. Universidad de Antioquia.

Magna Cum Laude

MaldonadoEliana_2021_PoeticasQuechuasArguedas.pdf (udea.edu.co)