About

Magda Sepulveda Erizis is an associate professor in the Facultad de Letras of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an associate researcher with the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

An expert in Chilean literature and cultural studies, she has authored the books Ciudad quiltra. Poesía chilena (1973-2013) (2013) and Chile urbano: la ciudad en la literatura y el cine (2013), and she co-authored Tinta de sangre: narrativa policial chilena del siglo XX  (2009). She has been the principal investigator of the projects "Representaciones de la ciudad en la poesía chilena" and "Comidas y bebidas en la poesía chilena," both funded by research councils, which analyze and construe Chilean poetry in the context of Chile's political history, urban development, indigenous cultures, and film.

She has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Salamanca, visiting researcher at the University of Leipzig, and has organised and delivered workshops at the Catholic University of Milan and Stockholm University. She is the director of the Postgraduate Programme in Literature at the PUC Chile.