University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate Student, Spanish and Portuguese
Humanities Exposed Scholar, Marie Christine Kohler Fellow, Chancelor's Fellow
College of Letters and Sciences
Thesis Title: Made in Buenos Aires: Eloisa Cartonera and Literary Production in the Post-2001 Crisis in Argentina
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Ksenija Bilbija
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About
Djurdja Trajkovic is a dissertator in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She finished a dissertation on the aesthetics and politics of cartonera small presses in Latin America. Specifically, her focus is Argentina’s Eloísa Cartonera publishing house and its new wave of emerging writers including Washington Cucurto, Fernanda Laguna and Cecilia Pavon. She currently has two articles under peer review and is developing a book-length project on identity politics, cultural production and agency in the post-Washington consensus in Argentina, Brazil and Peru. Her interests are contemporary Latin American literature and culture including Brazil. Specifically, post-dictatorship fiction writing, visual culture and cinema production, 21st century cultural production in Latin America. Djurdja is a 2009 recipient of the Humanities Exposed (HEX) award in public scholarship granted by the Center for the Humanities and a 2010 recipient of the Chancellor’s Fellowship for the Humanities.
