New Cabell Hall 462
Office Hours: Tues 11:00am-12:00pm & by appt in person & via Zoom

Education

Ph.D. Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress).

M.A. Spanish, University of Virginia.

M.A. Spanish, University of Wyoming.

B.A. Spanish Language and Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. 

Research Interests

My research focuses on the literary representations of climate change and labor practices in the poetry and narratives of the Southern Cone during the XXI Century. I explore the interconnections between these themes, emphasizing the inclusion of labor studies, particularly the economics of precariat work. Additionally, I investigate topics related to mental health and well-being in the context of climate change, such as solastalgia. The emergence of ‘eco-fiction’ globally and the intersection of environmental humanities with literature make the Southern Cone—an area marked by active environmental degradation and stressed agriculture—an attractive geography for my investigations.

Research Assistant in Computational Linguistics

• Tecling Project, Viña del Mar, Chile. 2014-2019
• Implemented testing for Personas, Organizaciones, y Lugar (POL) web app available in http://tecling.com/index.php?l=software 

Master of Arts Thesis Work: 

• "Multisemiotic Artifacts, Rupturism, and Counterculture: Cultural Archive from Parrian Antipoetry to Vaporwave." University of Wyoming, May of 2021. 

Bachelor of Arts Thesis Works: 

• "Retrocapitalism: Multisemiotic proposal for a literary-aesthetic analysis of Chilean post-capitalist society through the corpus "Odio a Puente Alto" (José Ángel Cuevas), Mano de obra & Sumar (Diamela Eltit)." Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, December of 2018.        
• "Analysis and classification of proper nouns in geopolitical articles extracted from Le Monde Diplomatique's magazine: an approach from the text grammar." Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, December of 2015. 

Publications

Co-Published: Nazar, R.; Arriagada, P. (2017). “POL: un nuevo sistema para la detección y clasificación de nombres propios.” Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, n. 58, pp. 13-20.

Review: Arriagada Soto, Patricio. “Review of ‘Tras las huellas de Pablo Neruda: Un homenaje a Hernán Loyola,’ by Greg Dawes, editor.” Hispania, vol. 6, Fall 2021, Submitted.

Review: Arriagada Soto, Patricio. "Review of 'Vidas. Deep in Mexico and Spain,' by Edward Stanton, author." Hispania, vol. 7, Spring 2021, Submitted.

Conference Presentations

- 28TH CAROLINA CONFERENCE FOR ROMANCE STUDIES  | Chapel Hill, North Carolina   April 2024    Presentation: " 21st Century Environmental Discourses in Argentinean-Chilean Poetry and Narrative"

- LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION  | Vancouver, Canadá   May 2023                                           Presentation: "Soliloquio del individuo" or the individual function: underlying mathematical functions in Nicanor Parra's antipoetry"

- KENTUCKY FOREIGN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE | University of Kentucky   April 2022                           Presentation: “Multisemiotic artifacts, rupturism, and counterculture: from Parrian antipoetry to Vaporwave”

- ROCKY MOUNTAIN MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION | University of Texas, El Paso   October 2019   Presentation: "Monitoring of New Drug Names Based on the Detection of Contextual Elements in Spanish"

- INSTITUTE OF LITERATURE AND SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE | PUCV, Viña del Mar   December 2018                Poster Presentation: “Clasificación Automática de Tipos de Entidad Mediante Relaciones de Hiperonimia y Elementos Cotextuales”

- AUTOMATIZED PROCESSING OF TEXTS AND CORPORA WORKSHOP | PUCV, Viña del Mar   November 2016   Poster Presentation: “Clasificación automática de Nombres Propios Utilizando Pistas Cotextuales”

Teaching

At the University of Virginia, I have taught 1020, 2010, 2020, and 3010 (in remote format and in person). I also taught Spanish classes at the University of Wyoming for Spanish minors and majors. These courses included the first and second years of 1010, 1020, 2030, and 2040 students at UW.

Honors & Awards

Scholarship Recipient | Dean's Graduate Scholars by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Wyoming. September 2019

Honorary Member | Sigma Delta Pi (National Hispanic Honorary Society). October 2019 – Present

     UW Chapter

Alumni member | Fundación para el Progreso, a subsidiary of Atlas Network  

Professional Affiliations

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)

Memory Studies Association (MSA)