Eliana Hernández-Pachón

Eliana Hernández-Pachón headshot

Ph.D.

Lecturer of Spanish
Faber Hall 561
718-817-5656
[email protected]

FALL 2024 Office hours:
T: 2:30-4:30, W: 3:00-4:00 or by appt.  
  • PhD in Romance Studies (Hispanic Literature), Cornell University. 
    M.F.A Creative Writing in Spanish, New York University.
    B.S., Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes. 

  • Eliana Hernández-Pachón research interests include contemporary Latin American literature and visual art, environmental humanities, queer ecologies and activism.

  • Eliana Hernández-Pachón (1989) holds a Bachelor’s in Anthropology from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) as well as an M.F. A. in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Cornell University. She is the author of La Mata (Laguna Libros), which won the National Award of Poetry in Colombia in 2020, and was published as The Brush (Archipelago Books, 2024, translated by Robin Myers). She is also the co-author of Plantas del camino (Jardín, Colombia) and the editor of the anthology Un florero que se rompe/A Vase that Shatters, which features short stories and poems by members of the Truth Commission of Colombia. She is the co-founder of Como un lugar, a poetry collective that runs an independent press in Buenos Aires and organizes a literary festival in NYC. Her work as a cultural organizer has been funded by Brooklyn Council of the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. 
     
    • “El sueño de toda célula: lenguaje de plantas en la poesía mexicana contemporánea” (Revista [sic], 2022).
    • “Formas vegetales y tierras donde se vegeta: el plátano en la silva a La agricultura de la Zona Tórrida y en Volver a comer del árbol de la ciencia” (Iberoromania, 2025).