Rachel Whitford is a recent graduate from the University of Edinburgh who wrote this paper in her final year of her Undergraduate degree. While at the University of Edinburgh, Rachel worked as a Senior News Writer for the university’s main campus newspaper The Student where she mainly reported on social and gender issues in the Edinburgh area. She also interned for an academic publishing company that specialises in medical research. Rachel has always been drawn to contemporary literature and became particularly interested in postmodernist and constructivist thinking and its tension with capitalist normality while studying her undergrad. Rachel is due to start studying an MSc in Applied Educational and Social Research with the University of Strathclyde in September 2019.
Nicole Bilan is a third-year student of Comparative Literature at King’s College London. She is currently writing her dissertation on the portrayal of the body in Derek Walcott’s Omeros and Un Cuerpecito Son Muchas Partes by Legna Rodriguez Iglesias (doing her best not to weep every time she reads Omeros). Nicole is also the editor of Chapter Catcher, a quarterly magazine that aims to make a broad range of literature more accessible. Once she has graduated, she plans to pursue her study of Comparative Literature at graduate level and further indulge her (slight) obsession with poetry.
Tae Catalina Markey grew up in between Bogotá, Colombia and Paris, France. She recently graduated from Duke University’s Program in Literature with a major in Global Cultural Studies and a minor in Philosophy. She is interested in media theory, Latin American literature, and contemporary film. While at Duke, she also undertook projects in dance, podcast production, and DJing. Although she will be working at a film magazine next year, she plans to pursue a PhD in comparative literature at some point in her life.
The Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal 