Victoria Baena is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her research focuses on the novel between realism and modernism across Europe and Latin America.
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Victoria Baena is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her research focuses on the novel between realism and modernism across Europe and Latin America.
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