Bio
Nadia Escalante Andrade is a writer, researcher, and educator whose work focuses on environmental humanities, material culture, and the intersections between visual arts and literature in 20th- and 21st-century Latin American cultural production, with particular attention to women's self-representation.
She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently La raíz negra de los astros (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2023). Her creative work integrates her long-standing passion for the arts, particularly photography, physical theatre, dance, and music. She has collaborated with various artists on cross-disciplinary performances that reveal new dimensions to the written texts, integrating image, sound, and the body.
As an educator, she developed Escritura Plantae, a project dedicated to creative writing strategies and poetics rooted in the relationship between the plant kingdom and poetry. She also worked for seven years as a creative writing instructor and mentor at the Creative Writing School of the Fine Arts State Center in Yucatan, Mexico.
She holds degrees in Hispanic Language and Literature from Universidad Veracruzana (UV) and in Education from Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY).
Specialization
Hispanic Literatures
Research
Latin American Literature (20th–21st Century), Visual Arts, Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, Material Culture, Poetry and Poetics