Territorios del olvido examines Mexico’s southern border and the Mediterranean as interconnected territories shaped by migration, displacement, environmental violence, and necropolitical systems. Reading contemporary poetry in Spanish from both shores of the Atlantic, the project proposes a transoceanic geopoetics: a way of mapping how poems register the bodies, routes, and silences that border regimes produce.
The manuscript grows out of my doctoral dissertation, Territorios del olvido en la poesía en castellano contemporánea (2018–2023): geopoéticas del desarraigo y necropolíticas del sujeto migrante (University of Washington, 2026; committee: Anthony Geist, chair; José Francisco Robles; Leigh K. Mercer; José Antonio Lucero), and connects with a broader research agenda on the Mexico–Central America migratory corridor, transatlantic and transoceanic cultural formations, memory and the archive, Chicanx and U.S. Latinx literature, datafication and algorithmic authorship, visual poetry, and the relationship between literary production and technology.