Sarli E. Mercado

Co-Director, 4W-International Women Collective Translation Project, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sarli Mercado is a literary critic and author of Cartographies of Exile: On the Poetry of Juan Gelman and Luisa Futoransky [Cartografías del destierro: En torno a la poesía de Juan Gelman y Luisa Futoransky (2008)]. She has published and presented her work on contemporary Spanish American poetry in the United States, Latin America and Europe.

Her current research topics are related to contemporary Southern Cone women poets and literary practices of twenty first century Spanish American writers, the poetic and visual art expressions (street art) that link urban and non-urban environments to ecological thinking. In the Department of Spanish and Portuguese she teaches courses on Spanish American literature, writing, translation and urban cultural studies.

She is part of the ongoing collaborative interdisciplinary projects between UW-Madison and the Museum of Environmental Sciences (MCA) at the University of Guadalajara, and co-directs the 4W Living Poetry-Women in Translation Project (4W-WIT).