Sara Cordón

Student Fellow

Sara Cordón is currently a PhD candidate at the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures department at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research examines how twenty-first-century Latin American and Spanish authors with sexual, ethnic, gender, or class identities traditionally excluded from the realm of literary distinction employ self-exhibition to engage with the public, thus redrawing the limits of literature. Her dissertation reflects critically on the commodification and manipulation of the contemporary authorial figure, as well as the possibilities of agency that certain non-hegemonic writers have been able to find in recent decades. Sara received her MFA in Creative Writing at NYU, her M.A. in Humanities at Carlos III University of Madrid, and her M.A. in Book Publishing at Salamanca University. She is the author of the novel “Para español, pulse 2” (Caballo de Troya/ Penguin Random House, 2018). She co-founded the non-profit bilingual New York based publishing company Chatos Inhumanos (www.chatosinhumanos.com).

Participating Years

2021–2022

Agrarian Questions, Urban Connections, and Planetary Possibilities: Fire, Water, Earth and Air

The material conditions of agrarian life are deeply connected to the political, social, economic, environmental and cultural challenges of contemporary existence at a planetary scale. Agrarian spaces are central to geopolitical disputes over land and other natural resources, and rural social movements play a key role in defending biodiversity and food production.