ABOUT ME
¡Hola! Hello! こんにちは！
I’m an Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where I teach humanities courses on video games, graphic narratives, and East Asian culture.
I hold a dual-title Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Visual Studies from The Pennsylvania State University. My primary area of research is global visual culture, especially video games and comics from Japan and Latin America. Other areas of research include world literature, gender studies, and Japanese literature.
I am open to advising Ph.D. students at UC and being the external committee member for grads at other institutions. Those applying to the doctoral program in Communication Sciences at UC may locate my fields of work within the lines of Communication and Digital Technology; Media Industry; and Advertising, Consumption, and Culture. Learn more.
Currently teaching:
- First semester 2025: Seminario College. (Campus San Joaquín)
- Second semester 2025: Graduate course TBD in the doctoral program in Communication Sciences. (Campus Casa Central)
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
- Pasantía Centro UC de Estudios Asiáticos (estudiantes UC y externos)
El Centro UC Estudios Asiáticos (CEA-UC) tiene la misión de impulsar y canalizar la investigación y realizar docencia, con el propósito de aumentar el conocimiento sobre Asia en Chile y Iberoamérica. El Centro se formó en el año 2011, en… Read more: Pasantía Centro UC de Estudios Asiáticos (estudiantes UC y externos) - MLA 2025 Panel: Session 177.
The panel “Women in the early history of comics (1800s-1950s)” has been scheduled for the 2025 MLA convention in New Orleans, LA for Thursday, January 9 at 7:00p.m. in room Quarterdeck B, Hilton Riverside. The description of each presentation and… Read more: MLA 2025 Panel: Session 177. - Call for Applications: Remote Internship on Japanese fashion history (apply by Dec 9)
III Global Research Program Global Internships for Research and Practice-Based Learning The Global Research Program promotes international research collaboration, connecting UC Chile researchers with master’s and senior undergraduate international students. Students from all over the world may become interns in… Read more: Call for Applications: Remote Internship on Japanese fashion history (apply by Dec 9)
FIND ME ONLINE
Instagram: [@profegutie]
Webpages at UC: [College UC] [School of Communications]
H-Net: [Profile page]
H-Commons [Profile page]
Japan Past & Present [Profile page]
Humanities Institute Residence 2023 [Project Description] [Resident Talk]
University of Maryland 20th Century Japan Research Award [Announcement] [List of Recipients]
Swann Foundation Fellowship by the United States Library of Congress [Announcement]
Japan Foundation Fellowship Program for Specialists in Cultural Fields [Fellowship Report]
IN THE NEWS
“Otakus en Chile: experta UC detalla los animes que marcaron el nacimiento de esta tribu urbana en el país”. ADN País, 16 Dec 2024. (Radio interview)
“El perfil de los otakus en Chile: quiénes son, qué les gusta y cómo se diferencian entre sí”. ADN, 16 Dec 2024.
“Día del Otaku: 5 animes que marcaron a los chilenos. Una especialista de la Universidad Católica explica como la década de los 90′ despertó un fanatismo excepcional en nuestro país”. ETC, 13 Dec 2024.
“5 animes que marcaron el nacimiento de los otakus en Chile, según especialista de la UC”. Biobiochile, 13 Dec 2024.
“Visual studies dual-title doctoral program graduates first cohort”. Penn State News, 11 Sept 2023.
“‘My Favorite Thing is Monsters’ wins 2018 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize”. Penn State News, 2 May 2018.
“Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize: Press Release”. Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2 May 2018.
RECORDINGS
Internal Colloquium. UC Center for Asian Studies. 2024 [Watch Recording]
Doctoral Colloquium. UC Department of Communications. 2023 [Watch Recording]
IV Congreso PRISMA Graphic Medicine Panel 2022 [Watch Recording] [Conference Program]
Dibujos que Hablan #7 roundtable 2022 [Watch Recording] [Conference Site]
Doctores Salvajes podcast interview 2020 [Listen on Spotify]
AFFILIATIONS
The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile is located in central Chile, on the ancestral and dispossessed lands of the Pikunche communities of the Mapuche people, who resisted colonization by the Inca and Spanish empires. The history of displacement and forced cultural assimilation of the Mapuche people is part of the context under which our institution has produced human capital since its founding in 1888.