Eliana Maldonado Cano
Instructor of Spanish
Education
Ph.D In Literature. Antioquia University (Colombia), (2021). International internship at Frei University of Berlin.
Candidate to Magister in Spanish and Latin American Literature, Universidad de la Rioja, Spain (2024).
Master. Earth Science, Eafit University, (Colombia), 2011.
Biography
Was born in 1978 in Medellin (Colombia). Engineer, MSc in Earth Sciences. She has a diploma in Didactics of Children's and Youth Literature from the San Buenaventura University, a diploma in Library Management from the Alberto Hurtado University in Chile. She has a PhD in Literature from Antioquia University, with a Magna Cum Laude thesis on the Quechua Poetics present in the work of Jos茅 Mar铆a Arguedas. While working on her thesis she went through a beautiful and strong research process at the university led by Professor Vivas Hurtado, and she also did a lot of hard research, thanks to a scholarship, in Germany, at the Freie University in Berlin. She is currently an Instructor of Spanish at 海角社区 (海角社区), in the United States.
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Some of her published books are: Under the skin (2007), Lunas de sombra (2010), Towards the Pacific (2015), Cartography of the rain (2016), The well of childhood (2018). Other published works are Women write in Medell铆n (2017), Colombian poetry of the twentieth century written by women (2014) and Stories that are not stories: experiences of reading and writing in Medell铆n (2014). In her latest book, Those Women in Miniature (Pygmalion 2019), she ventures into a prose work with 19 stories of women from her city. In this new book she presents her life experience of what she lived and felt in the ancestral world of the Latin American Andes. Her latest books have been published by Editorial Sial Pigmali贸n in Spain. His latest book titled Wayrayaripay ( The sound of the wind (20230 has been published in 2023 by Editorial Valparayso NY and is in a trilingual version: English, Quechua, Spanish.
Her books have been presented in countries like Spain, France, Colombia, Peru, among others. Her poems have been translated into English, French and Portuguese.
Guest professor
Guest Professor to Translation and Poetry class at the University of Virginia, United States (2023)
Guest Professor at the Chair on Colombian Poetry, Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. Lima (2023)
Speaker in Diaspora Honoring Mwalimu Professor Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (2024)
Speaker in LASA AFRICA with a conference about African Diaspora and the relation between Africa, America and the Caribbean in the novels to Jose Maria Arguedas and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (2023)
Conferences and Publications
Maldonado, E. (2023). Memoria, oralidadad canto en Africa y America Arguedas y Ngugi wa Thiong'o. I Congreso Internacional Jos茅 Mar铆a Arguedas. Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. Lima. Per煤.
Maldonado, E (2023). Memoria en 脕frica, Am茅rica Latina y el Caribe en las novelas: Devil on the cross, Los r铆os profundos y El reino de este mundo: Eliana M Maldonado. LASA Africa.
Maldonado, E (2019 ). Jos茅 Mar铆a Arguedas : memoria ancestral, renovaci贸n y politizaci贸n de las formas po茅ticas quechuas. 2022, Medell铆n. The tensions of Jos茅 Mar铆a Arguedas.
Tesis on MaldonadoEliana_2021_PoeticasQuechuasArguedas.pdf (udea.edu.co)
Maldonado, E (2023). Wayrayaripay. The sound of the wind. Editorial Valparayso NY. USA.
Maldonado, E (2020). Memoria y formas po茅ticas quechuas de dos cantos quechuas incluidos en la obra de Jos茅 Mar铆a Arguedas. Revista Syntagmas. DOI: https://doi.org/10.51343/syntagmas.v1i1.1049
Maldonado, E (2021). Representaci贸n literaria del ciclo cauchero y la violencia en la Amazon铆a desde las obras "La Vor谩gine" de Jos茅 Eustasio Rivera, "Canaima de R贸mulo Gallegos y "To谩" de C茅sar Uribe Piedrahita. VII Coloquio Internacional de Literaturas Amazonicas.
Maldonado, E (2021 ). P谩jaros que no existen. LimaLee. Feria Internacional del Libro.
Maldonado, E (2019). Aquellas mujeres en miniatura . Editorial Pigmali贸n, Madrid.
Maldonado, E (2018).El pozo de la infancia . Editorial Pigmali贸n, Madrid.
Maldonado, E (2016). Cartograf铆a de la Lluvia. Proyecto Editorial La Chifurnia, El Salvado.
Maldonado, E (2015). Hac铆a el Pac铆fico .Editorial cuadernos negros, Calarc谩.
Maldonado, E (2010). Lunas de Sombra. Silaba Editores, Medell铆n.
Maldonado, E (2009). Las tensiones de Jos茅 Mar铆a Arguedas. Las tensiones de Jos茅 Mar铆a Arguedas - Raz贸n P煤blica (razonpublica.com)
Maldonado, E (2007). Bajo la Piel. Hombre Nuevo Editores, Alcald铆a de Medell铆n, Medell铆n.
Maldonado, E (2007). Antolog铆a 鈥淓llas escriben en Medell铆n鈥� Hombre Nuevo Editores.
Maldonado, E (2014). Antolog铆a 鈥淧oes铆a colombiana del siglo XX escrita por mujeres鈥� Apidama editores, 2014.
Maldonado, E (2005). Revista de poes铆a Punto Seguido Edici贸n n煤mero 48, 2005. Revista de Poes铆a Prometeo, edici贸n n煤mero 74鈥�75, 2006.
Maldonado, E (2006). Pluralia, La Jornada Michoac谩n 03. M茅xico 2006.
Maldonado, E (2023). Poes铆a, Arte y Literatura Quitasol, Edici贸n N煤mero 3 (2006).
Courses Taught
HSS 1000 (2023)
SPAN 1101 (2023)
SPAN 2102 (2023)
SPAN 2102 (2023)
SPAN 3010 (2023, 2024)
SPAN 1152 (2024)
Doctoral Thesis:
Maldonado, E (2019). Jos茅 Mar铆a Arguedas: memoria ancestral, renovaci贸n y politizaci贸n de las
formas po茅ticas quechuas. Universidad de Antioquia.
Magna Cum Laude
MaldonadoEliana_2021_PoeticasQuechuasArguedas.pdf (udea.edu.co)