Received Sylff fellowship in 2013
Current affiliation: ANID-Postdoctoral Researcher Instituto de Estética, UC
María Yaksic (Santiago, Chile) holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Chile and is currently an ANID Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Aesthetics (PUC). Her research focuses on print cultures, Latin American critical thought, and contemporary Caribbean literature. From 2020 to 2024, she participated in the European project ConnecCaribbean – Connected Worlds: the Caribbean, Origin of Modern World, funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. She is also an editor at Banda Propia editoras, an independent publishing house dedicated to Latin American and Caribbean literature and to recovering works by women writers from earlier periods.
She is currently a recipient of a 2026 Sylff Research Grant for the project "Caribbean Women in Postcolonial Print Culture: Archival Transatlantic Traces".
