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Matías Larramendi-Salvat is a scholar, writer, and educator whose work explores contemporary literature and speculative aesthetics in Latin America. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, where he is completing his dissertation, Vida Neo-barroca: Crisis y literatura contemporánea en América Latina. His broader research examines questions of modernity, crisis, and cultural form across the region. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Chasqui, Mediations, Décalages, and Universum.

He has taught courses on Latin American literature, Hispanic literature and culture, film, cultural history, and multiple levels of Spanish language. In addition to his academic work, he writes fiction that blends speculative imagination with formal experimentation. His novel Historia Oficial del Carnaval Intergaláctico was published by Ediciones Tajante in 2025.