Staff profile

I am fascinated by the subversive interactions that emerge between ecology, philosophy and culture. My core research examines how the Anthropocene shapes narratives across languages and geographies. As an environmental posthumanist, I engage with nonhuman alterities in favour of a pluriversal and biodiverse planet. My first book reveals how the portrayal of plains geographies in canonical literatures in Latin America is intimately connected to colonialist tropes that imagine grasslands as empty and barren. I argue that such tropes ultimately legitimised a settler ethos that lead to monoculture and extractive sites throughout Latin America. My current research is focused on the links between climate change and contemporary culture in Spain and Latin America. I am particularly interested in the role of women writers in articulating environmental imaginaries that negotiate the unprecedented challenges of the Anthropocene. One strand of my work on culture and climate change is connected to research in contemporary drought narratives in Latin America, which forms part of my second book project. Also as an avid gravel and endurance cyclist, I am also involved in a project that links cycling and drought observatories in Europe and beyond.

I am currently on Research Leave until January 2025.

• Latin American Ecocriticism
• Philosophy of Liberation
• Environmental Humanities
• Brazilian Ecocriticism
• Energy Humanities

Authored book

• Perez Trujillo Diniz, A. (2021). Imagining the Plains of Latin America: An Ecocritical Study. Bloomsbury

Book review

• Perez Trujillo Diniz, A. (2020). Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon. Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, 43(3), 763-765. https://doi.org/10.2307/26956054
• Perez Trujillo, A. (2016). Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts. https://doi.org/10.1353/crc.2016.0012
• Pérez, A. (2013). Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography. ESTUDIOS NIETZSCHE, 13(1), 250-252
• Pérez, A. (2011). ¿Nietzsche ha muerto? Memorias del congreso internacional
• Pérez, A. (2010). Política de la liberación II: Arquitectónica

Chapter in book

• Perez Trujillo, A. (2022). Exposed Insularity: Documenting an Island of Waste in Ilha das Flores by Jorge Furtado. In The Film Archipelago. Bloomsbury
• Perez Trujillo, A. (2021). Fleeing Ilex Paraguariensis: Yerba Mate Plantations in Horacio Quiroga and Augusto Roa Bastos. In Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology and the Global Food System

Journal Article

• Perez Trujillo, A., & Pelettier-Gagnon, J. (online). Colonizing Pepe: Internet Memes as Cyberplaces. Space and Culture, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331218776188
• Perez Trujillo, A. (2020). Poética combativa y trasvase filosófico en la obra del joven Sánchez Vázquez. Sansueña, 1(1), 154-168
• Perez Trujillo, A. (2018). Infinitesimal Poetics of the Sedimented Ground: The Pantanal in Manoel de Barros. Mosaic (Winnipeg), 51, 71-87
• Perez Trujillo, A. (2017). Photographed Metaphors: Meaning, Reference, and Translation in Manoel de Barros. TranscUlturAl, 9(1), 105-122. https://doi.org/10.21992/t9hd02
• Perez-Trujillo, A. (2017). Galgos en el llano: La ecología oscura del campo en Intemperie de Jesús Carrasco. Letr@s Hispanas (Las Vegas, Nev.), 13(1), 244-254
• Perez Trujillo, A. (2016). Postcolonial Ecologies: The Cross-Pollination of Postcolonial and Environmental Studies. The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, 32(1), 38-54
• Perez Trujillo, A. (2015). La Pampa y sus hijos: el problema de la extensión en la literatura gauchesca. Entrehojas, 5(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.5206/entrehojas.v5i1.6157
• Perez Trujillo, A. (2015). Filosofar con el pulso ardiendo: El trasvase poético de Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez. Bajo palabra (Madrid), 10(1), 315-323. https://doi.org/10.15366/bp2015.10.026
• Perez-Trujillo, A. (2013). El Nietzsche de Walter Kaufmann. ESTUDIOS NIETZSCHE, 13(1), 107-118

Other (Print)

• Perez Trujillo, A. (2017). Ninth [Short Story]
• Perez Trujillo, A. (2016). The Crimson Steppe [Short Story]