Dr Erika Teichert
BA, MPhil, PhD
Expertise
I work on modern and contemporary art and visual culture from Latin America. My work explores the intersection between cultural production, human rights discourses and activist politics.
Current positions
Lecturer in Latin American Studies (Spanish)
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Contact
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Biography
I hold a BA in History of Art from University College London (2014), and an MPhil (2017) and PhD (2022) in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge.
Research interests
I am a scholar of culture and politics in Latin America. My research specialises in the intersection between visual culture and activist politics in the region. I publish on a range of artistic forms and their relation to politics and activism, including photography, film, theatre, art and other forms of visual and material cultures.
My present research investigates cultural and activist responses to environmental concerns in Latin America. I am currently collaborating with the ERC-funded project PeatSense as Senior Researcher and Ethics Leads. PeatSense is led by Prof Naomi Millner (School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol). Focusing on the Patagonia region (Chile and Argentina), I research artistic and cultural representations of peatlands as well as the politics of environmental activism and its cultural production.
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in the study of Latin America, particularly in relation to arts and culture, activist politics and environmental issues.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
From the Personal to the Planetary: Interaction, Activism and Futures
Role
Collaborator
Description
The Brigstow Institute and Cabot Institute for the Environment’s new Personal to the Planetary (P2P) Community Fellowships bring together talented environmental actors, drawn from researchers, community groups, the voluntary sector,…Managing organisational unit
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesDates
01/06/2024 to 31/03/2025
Publications
Recent publications
29/10/2025Constructive play, avant-garde art and the utopian imagination in Latin America
Playthings and Playtimes
Aesthetics for the End Times: A review of Jens Andermann, Entranced Earth: Arts, Extractivism, and the End of Landscape
Postmodern Culture
The Faces of Mining
The time it takes: A reflection on academia and activism
Feminism as Celebration
MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture