Degrees
2024, Honors BA English Literature and Philosophy, Marquette University
Bio
Margarita Buitrago is a PhD student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She focuses on Anglo-French-Iberian medieval literature and is especially interested in allegories and travel literature. Her research explores how the role of vernacular texts, history, translation, and visual culture shaped medieval transnational identities.
In addition to medieval studies, Margarita is also interested in pedagogy, the digital humanities, and the history of the book. Currently, she works in writing center research and as an editorial assistant at the William Blake Archive.
Publications:
(co-author) Eugenia Afinoguénova and Margarita Buitrago, “Child Refugees and the Transnational Iconographies of a Better Future During the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.” (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2025).
Awards
- Doctoral Merit Fellowship, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (2024)
- Outstanding English Major Award, Marquette University Department of English (2024)
- Undergraduate Research Assistantship, Marquette University (2024)
- Honors Research Fellowship Award for Summer 2023, Marquette University Honors Program (2023)