With this scholarship, Dr. Carolina Navarrete González will carry out a research stay at the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies of The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Dr. Carolina Navarrete González is the academic coordinator for the research field of Cultural Studies, Discourse and Communication of the Doctorate in Social Sciences of the Faculty of Education, Social Science and Humanities of the university Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) and has now been awarded the Chile Crea Scholarship 2021 through her project “Promotion of reading and women's writing, with an emphasis on contemporary narratives of the self”, which is funded by the Chilean Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, through the Regional Ministerial Secretariat for Culture and Arts of the Araucanía Region.

This scholarship is for a research stay at the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies of The University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, where she is going to work together with Dr. María Adelaida Escobar-Trujillo, a novelist and specialist in women's narratives of the self and researcher in transatlantic studies of culture and literature, gender studies, and personal and historical memories.

The research stay of Dr. Navarrete is also linked to her Fondecyt project Nº 11190799 “Stitching loose pieces of oneself together: towards poetics of details in the writings of the self of contemporary female authors (1990-2018)”, and the initiative “Chair of Narratives of the Self” of the research field coordinated by herself in the Doctorate in Social Sciences, which has the support of the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Graduate Studies and the Faculty of Education, Social Science and Humanities of UFRO.

This great opportunity to learn from her peers at UBC, which is ranked as the 34th best university in the THE World University Ranking, will allow Dr. Navarrete to move forward with her research in the field of “Narratives of the Self” and to get to know a transatlantic perspective, as well as the personal, social and historical memory of women. Besides, it will allow her to establish significant partnerships with prestigious international experts in her field of studies.

Written by: Faculty of Education, Social Science and Humanities, UFRO