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Please join the Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group for a conversation with Felipe Martínez-Pinzón the author of Una cultura de invernadero: trópico y civilización en Colombia (1808-1928)

Felipe Martínez-Pinzón is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University. His research works on the junctions between nation, cosmopolitanism, and the tropics in nineteenth-century Latin America.  He has also co-edited three collections. With Javier Uriarte, Entre el humo y la niebla: guerra y cultura en América Latina (IILI, 2016) and Intimate Frontiers: a Literary Geography of the Amazon (Liverpool UP, forthcoming 2019). With Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik, Revisitar el costumbrismo: cosmopolitismo, pedagogías y modernización en Iberoamericana (Peter Lang, 2016). His book Patricios en contienda: literatura panorámica y representación del pueblo en Colombia, Venezuela y Ecuador (1830-1880) will come out in 2021 with UNC Press in its collection North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures.