Samantha Kotta

Samantha Kotta is a literary scholar who studies modernism in Latin America, especially in Peru and Brazil. Her study looks at how avant-garde journals and revolutionary literary organizations helped shape cultural and political resistance in the early 1900s. Utilizing archival research and comparative analysis, she examines how José Carlos Mariátegui’s “Amauta” engaged in extensive hemispheric discourses around Marxism, indigeneity, labor, and national identity, in conjunction with Brazilian modernist groups like as Antropofagia. Her research includes postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, translation, and critical studies of race, gender, and sexuality. Samantha’s research shows how transnational exchanges have shaped the intellectual history of Latin America and contradicts accounts that separate national literary traditions from larger continental movements.