Carla Noemi AlanisPhD student

About me

I am a PhD student with a background that bridges two worlds. Originally from Argentina, I have spent over a decade residing in Sweden, where my academic journey has taken shape. I pursued my studies in literature at the University of Buenos Aires and Stockholm University, and also delved into Spanish and French at the Department of Romance Studies and Classics.

In my candidate thesis, Mitologías de Auschwitz, I examined Gustavo Nielsen’s novel Auschwitz (2019) and analysed how it portrays a world where past horrors, such as Argentinean and Nazi concentration camps, continue to persist in the 21st century in the form of an ongoing conception of the other as a threaten to our survival. During my master's thesis, To Abide in Time: World-experiencing in selected works of Felisberto Hernández and Antonio di Benedetto, I delved further into the relationship between past and present in literature. While my candidate thesis focused on the political dimensions of memory, my master's thesis explored the correlation between narration and experience within a philosophical framework. I posited that the works of Felisberto Hernández (Uruguay, 1902-1964) and Antonio Di Benedetto (Argentina, 1922-1986) no longer trace a contiguity between the past and the present in accordance with the disintegrating experience of the world during the 20th century.

Building upon the foundation of my master's thesis, I am interested in investigating the relationship between technological advancements and the perception of time. Extensive research in critical studies has highlighted the correlation between technology and modernist aesthetics. Therefore, my intention is to analyse the manner in which contemporary Hispanic literature acknowledges and interacts with a unique temporal structure that deviates from the modern time regime.