Kaimé Guerrero Valencia

Reseacher, Faculty of Humanities, University of Duisburg-Essen

Vita

Kaimé Guerrero Valencia (pronouns: they/them) are a writer and scholar originally from Quito, who has been based in Berlin for the past nine years. Their academic career commenced with a diploma in Sociology and Political Science at the "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador". Kaimé proceeded to pursue further studies, attaining a Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies with a Gender Profile at the Freie Universität Berlin. They are a current PhD candidate and researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre "Intervening Arts" (SFB1512) within the Department of Humanities at the University Duisburg-Essen.

Keywords

(Neo)materialist and ecological approaches in artistic, scientific and political practices.
Literature, migration and diaspora.
Trans*, queer and anti-racist perspectives in Abya Yala
Intersections between between literature, performance and science and and politics, particularly in the context of developing alternative modes of world-making.
Counter-narratives and forms of political resistance in Hispanic America and Brazil in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Casegroup

Languages and Cultural Studies, Art and Design