Estefanía Bournot (PhD) is a Research Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where she leads the project Forgotten Routes across the Atlantic (1960-1990). Her forthcoming monograph explores Pan-African encounters and cultural diplomacy as pivotal nodes in transatlantic exchanges between Brazil and West Africa, set against the backdrop of Cold War politics. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary cultural productions from the Global South and adopt a comparative lens to examine Lusophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone Atlantic cultures.
She is the author of Giros topográficos: (Re)Escrituras del espacio en la narrativa latinoamericana del S. XXI (Potsdam UP, 2022) and co-editor of the essays cluster on Geosemantics (ASAP/J) and the forthcoming collected volume World Literatures from Below (Bloomsbury). In 2024 she co-convened the international conference Decolonising the World Republic of Letters (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris) and the SUR Series on Latin American Artivism at the University of Bielefeld (Germany).