Mercedes Mayna-Medrano

Mercedes Mayna-Medrano is from Lima, Peru. She has a B.A. in Hispanic Literature at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). Her undergraduate thesis is titled "La teoría del trabajo femenino de Mercedes Cabello: Blanca Sol (1889) y 'Necesidad de una industria para la mujer' (1875)". She also holds an M.A. in Linguistics at PUCP. Her masters thesis is titled "Una mirada crítica a la construcción de la identidad femenina letrada en dos publicaciones periódicas del siglo XIX: El Correo del Perú (ECP) y El Perú Ilustrado (EPI)". Her areas of research are 19th Century Latin American Literature and Andean Studies. Her dissertation focus on genre narratives in Andean Countries, such as Peru and Bolivia, from the middle of the Nineteenth Century to the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Specifically, she is interested in the connection between melodrama as an aesthetic mode of expression, and the socio-economic effects of modernization in the Andean Region of Latin America. She has published articles and reviews for academic journals, such as Lexis, Boletín del Instituto Riva Agüero and Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, and contributed chapters to edited volumes, like Historia de las literaturas en el Perú. Vol III (forthcoming). She has taken part in several conferences, including the Latin American Studies Association annual congress and Thinking Andean Studies: an Interdisciplinary Conference.