Comparative Literature
Alejandro Morales
Research Interests
Comparative modernisms, crisis theory, capitalocene/plantationocene, utopian studies, 20th-century marxist literary theory
Biography
Ale Morales is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Literature. Their work focuses on the ways in which modernist Latin American and Caribbean texts can be read as ecological texts through their treatment of crisis and the spectres of the sugar plantation. As a Mellon Mays fellow, they previously explored a nascent idea of this project in their undergraduate thesis, "L’incapacité d’un dire : La pensée écologique d’Aimé Césaire et João Cabral de Melo Neto dans moi, laminaire… (1982) et Agrestes (1985)." Beyond their research, they are active in labor organizing and co-founded the Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth.
Education:
B.A. in Romance Languages, Dartmouth College, 2024
Languages:
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French