Cortés Rocca, Paola

Paola Cortes Rocca is a cultural critic specializing in the intersection between literature and visual expressions. She has published essays on zombies and race, ghosts and politics and technical imagination and citizenship in October, Mosaic and Iberoamericana magazines, among others. She has also written on the work of contemporary photographers, among whom figure Alessandra Sanguinetti, Eduardo Gil, Gabriela Liffschitz, Oscar Muñoz, Santiago Porter and Manel Esclusa. Her book El tiempo de la máquina (The Machine Age) deals with the impact of photography in the field of culture in Latin America during the late 19th Century. She is co-author of Eva Perón: imágenes de vida, relatos de muerte (Eva Perón: Images of Life, Accounts of Death), and co-editor of Políticas del sentimiento (Sentimental Politics), a collection of essays on Peronism. She holds a doctorate from Princeton University and teaches at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, the University of Southern California, San Francisco State University and the Buenos Aires campus of New York University. She currently lives in Argentina and is auxiliar investigator at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; she teaches at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, the Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham and the Universidad Nacional de las Artes.