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Kim Beauchesne is an Associate Professor in the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in Latin American colonial literature and postcolonial theory, with a particular emphasis on comparative colonialism. Beauchesne is a co-organizer of the UBC Postcolonial Research Cluster and has extensive research interests in the relationship between human rights and literature, notions of utopia, travel literature, and the legacy of colonialism in contemporary Latin American literature and culture. She is the author of 'Visión periférica: marginalidad y colonialidad en las crónicas de América Latina (siglos XVI-XVII y XX-XXI),' and has published scholarly articles and co-edited volumes on related themes. Notably, her work includes the volumes 'Performing Utopias in Contemporary Americas' and 'Utopian Impulse in Latin America.' In 2019, she received the SSHRC Insight Grant for her project titled 'Bridging Transatlantic and Transpacific Studies: Keichō Embassy Textual Representations in the Hispanic World (17th to 21st Centuries).' Her current projects also involve cultural decolonization efforts in the Americas and the exploration of Mapuche cultural strategies in challenging coloniality in the 21st century.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.