Prof. Dr. Magali Armillas-Tiseyra

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies
KeywordsAfrican literatures, Literary booms, Global South studies, Latin American literature, postcolonial literatures

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityUniversity Park
InstitutionPennsylvania State University (PennState)
InstituteDepartment of Comparative Literature

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gesine MüllerRomanisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln, Köln
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2023

Programme(s)

2023Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2027Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra: Filaments: Recognition, Interconnection, and Globality in Samanta Schweblin’s Kentukis and Mariana Enriquez’s Nuestra parte de noche. In: Gesine Müller and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Convivialities Otherwise: World Literatures from Latin America and the Global South. De Gruyter, 2027.
2027Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra: Writing from the World: The Iowa International Writing Program, the Cultural Cold War, and World-Literary Exchange. In: MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly, 88, 2027,
2026Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and Anne Garland Mahler: South-South Comparison and Global South Studies. In: Waïl Hassan and Shu-mei Shih, Worlds of Comparative Literature: The ACLA State of the Discipline Report. Bloomsbury, 2026. 127-36
2025Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra: Distant Lands and Climes: Latin American Criticism, World Literature, and Other Axes for Comparison. In: FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory 4, 2025, 99-120
2025Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra: Los festivales son las verdaderas novelas: Pola Oloixarac’s Mona and the Latin American Writer on the World Literary Circuit. In: Gesine Müller and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, World Exhaustion in Latin American Literatures and Cultures / El agotamiento del mundo en las literaturas y culturas de América Latina. De Gruyter, 2025. 37-52
2025Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra: South-South Constellations, Latin America and Africa (introduction). In: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyr and Sarah M. Quesada, Global South Studies (online). Global South Studies (online), 2025.
2025Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra: The Global South, Comparative Literature, and Practices of Comparison. In: Christopher J. Lee, Anne Garland Mahler, and Monica Popescu, Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South. Oxford University Press, 2025. n.p (initial publication online)
2025Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra: Unfinished Business: On the Histories (and Futures) of Latin America-Africa Comparison. In: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyr and Sarah M. Quesada, Global South Studies (online). Global South Studies (online), 2025.
2024Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra: New Frontiers for the Afronaut in Maisha Maene’s Mulika. In: ASAP/Review (online), 2024,