# Manuela Luengas Solano Postdoctoral Fellow ![Manuela Luengas Solano](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-08/MLS%20Photo-bio.jpg?h=3d15bd83&itok=FpClcTK2) email Manuela Luengas Solano is a Latin American cultural studies scholar whose areas of expertise include environmental humanities, contemporary art and media, and cultural anthropology. Her current book project, *River Archives: Sedimentation, Fluidity, and Futurity in Latin American Literature, Film and Art*, brings together a wide-ranging corpus of film, travel writing, cartography, literature, and installation art, examining the role of rivers in Latin America’s modern history. Concretely, she argues that rivers are both *archives* and *actors* for communities and artists alike; that is, they are conceived as meaningful entities holding traces of the past, while being active mediators of human and more-than-human relations. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this research offers a novel understanding of the region’s hydro-social territories, foregrounding rivers’ centrality in questions regarding political violence, race, and post-colonial extractive cycles. Manuela holds a PhD in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University, an MA in Literary Studies from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and a BA in Anthropology from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in *Contracorriente*, *Crisol*, *ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment*, and *World Literature Today.* A [book](https://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/ebooks/revista-mito/) on her previous research on twentieth-century print culture in Colombia has been published by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Press in 2025. - ## Fellowship [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral) - ## Fellowship Year [2025 - 2026](/fellowship-year/2025-2026) - ## Role [Fellows](/role/fellow)