Tania Triana is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and a doctoral scholarship recipient of KAAD. Her doctoral project, supervised by Prof. Dr. Roland Spiller and titled “Procesos de memorización alrededor de la desaparición forzada en la dictadura militar chilena y en el periodo ‘la búsqueda de la democracia y la guerra sucia’ en Colombia” (Processes of Memorization around Enforced Disappearance in the Chilean Military Dictatorship and in the Period ‘the Search for Democracy and the Dirty War’ in Colombia), examines how postmemorial narratives engage with state-enforced disappearance in Chile and Colombia, placing literary representations in dialogue with truth commission reports.
Her research interests include memory, transgenerational memory, enforced disappearance, and violence, especially, in Latin American contexts. Beyond academia, she has experience as consultant in projects related to peace, human rights, and historical memory. She has also participated in Trans.Arch, Archives in Transition: Collective Memories and Subaltern Uses, an international research project that examines the current uses and functions of archives in the context of globalization-related crises, with particular attention to their political, judicial, cultural, and artistic uses in Europe and Latin America.
Before starting her doctoral studies in Germany, she completed a Master’s Degree in Literature and Culture at Instituto Caro y Cuervo and a B.A. in Literary Studies at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. Her B.A. thesis was recognized with the Undergraduate Thesis Award from the Association of Colombianists in 2019.