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Biography (Biografía)

María Cristina Burneo Salazar was born in Quito,Ecuador in 1977. In 2003 she began her university studies at  Pontificia Universidad del Ecuador, where she obtained the degree of Licencee in Comunication and Literature with mention in Literature. Three years later, in 2006, she earned a Master´s degree in Cultural Studies, Mention in Literature, at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar Quito, and a PhD in Latin American Literature in 2011 at the University of Maryland, College Park, United States, with a Mary S.Snouffer ´´Wide Campus´´ Scholarship for doctoral dissertation.

In 2001, under the direction of Frank Holl, a science historian, she launched its first Colombian-Ecuadorian-German edition, entitled "The Return of Humboldt", due to the bicentennial of the arrival of A. Von Humboldt in Ecuador. At the same time, she translated from English to Spanish a set of essays about Federico García Lorca. She is a member of the editorial board of the poetry and essay magazine "País secreto", works at the cultural institute of Asociación Humboldt-Centro Goethe in Quito and has published poetry in several Ecuadorian magazines.

That same year, she received the Aurelio Espinosa Pólit Award in the "Essay" category, for the launch of "Pierre Menard's Dream", presented by the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.

Since 2014 she has been a postgraduate professor at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, specializing in Human Rights, Cultural Studies and Literature. She is a member of the research committee of the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar and a member of the committee of the area of literature and cultural studies of the same university. She was a guest professor at the University of Cuyo, Argentina, for a master's degree in Latin American Studies and at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the Department of Modern Letters.

As of 2014, she is part of the National Platform for Women's Rights and is editor of several publishing houses specialized in human rights and gender, such as Plan V and La Barra Espaciadora. She also publishes in written newspapers in Ecuador, such as El Telégrafo and Diario HOY, where she analyzes the political and rights situation in Ecuador.

Books (Libros)


 * 2001: El sueño de Pierre Menard. Quito, Planeta. Premio Nacional de Literatura Aurelio Espinosa Pólit, edición ensayo.


 * 2012: En distancia infinita. Amistad y traducción en A. Gangotena. Quito: UASB.


 * 2016: Dar piel. Quito: Trashumante. Entrevista a Jean-Luc Nancy, con R. Gordillo, R. Román y N. González, antecedido del ensayo “Piel esencial”, de Jean-Luc Nancy. Editora y traductora.


 * 2017: Acrobacia del cuerpo bilingüe. La poesía de Alfredo Gangotena. Leiden: Almenara Press.