Javier Uriarte

Javier Uriarte is a professor of Latin-American literature at Stony Brook University in the United States. His research areas are travel literature, Latin-American territorial imagination, processes of state consolidation in the region and environmental humanities. He is the author of The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America (Routledge, 2020) and co-organiser of Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon (Liverpool UP, 2019).