Dr. Ignacio Sarmiento Panez

I was born and raised in Santiago, Chile. I got my Licenciatura (BA) in History from Universidad Diego Portales. After graduating, I studied for one year in Vancouver. Then, I moved to New Orleans, where I obtained my MA and Ph.D. in Spanish from Tulane University. I love teaching, reading, traveling, and playing water polo.

Teaching Interests

Latin American literature and cultural studies

Research Interests

My research focuses on contemporary Central American Literature and Culture. My work has been published in journals like Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Transmodernity, Romance Notes, and Istmo, among others.

I am currently finishing my first book, tentatively entitled Specters of War. The Battle of Mourning in Post-conflict Central America, which explores manifestations of mourning in postwar El Salvador and Guatemala.

I am the co-editor of Central American Migration in the 21st Century (University of Arizona Press, forthcoming in the fall of 2023) and (En)Visioning Central American Migrations: Views from the Diaspora, a special issue of the journal Label Me Latino/a (2022).


My scholarly work can be found in my Academia.edu profile: https://fredonia.academia.edu/IgnacioSarmiento

Intellectual Contributions

• "Central American Migrations in the 21st Century," University of Arizona Press (2023).
• "On Crimes and Heros. Rafael Menjívar Ochoa and Crime Fiction," Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (2019).
• "Un paseo por las ruinas. Javier Payeras, el flâneur de la postguerra," Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (2019).
• "Desarticular la represión. La descomposición de la familia en la literatura centroamericana de postguerra," Centroamericana (2019).

Presentations

• "Duelo y migración. La voz de los desaparecidos en Libro Centroamericano de los Muertos, de Balam Rodrigo," Latin American Studies Association (2021).
• "Los espectros de la guerra. La batalla por el duelo en la postguerra centroamericana," N/A (2020).
• "Memorialization and the Battle of Mourning in Postwar El Salvador," 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference: Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia (2020).
• "Is There Still a Community to Come? The Possibilities of Community in Post-Conflict Central America," 39th Cincinnati Conference on Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures (2019).
• "To Mourn El Mozote’s Victims. Places of Memory in Postwar El Salvador," Commemorating Violent Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace (2019).
• "Is There Still a Community to Come? The Possibilities of Community in Post-Conflict Central America," Latin American Studies Association (2019).
• "“Las mujeres migrantes en la literatura de la salvadoreña Claudia Hernández”," Annual Meeting of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (2018).