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Tatiana Calderón Le Joliff - Pacte seminar - UGA - "Migrant corpographesis: from zombification to sensory rematerialization"
On December 9, 2025
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Tatiana Calderón Le Joliff, researcher in residence at the Collegium, will present her research entitled “Migrant corpographesis: from zombification to sensory rematerialization” at the seminar organized by the Social Justice team of the Pacte Social Sciences Laboratory at the University of Grenoble Alpes. This session is organized in collaboration with the ILCEA4 laboratory (UGA).
In this presentation, Tatiana Calderón Le Joliff will provide an overview of migrant corpographesis as studied in her forthcoming book, "Corps frontières dans les Amériques: littératures de la migration au XXIᵉ siècle" (Border Bodies in the Americas: Literature of Migration in the 21st Century). Corpographesis is defined as "the inscription of meaning on the body as well as the inscription of the body as meaning" (Zoberman and Paveau, 2009, p. 3). Adopting a comparative approach, she will focus on literary representations of the physical and emotional marks left on migrants' bodies by contemporary migration, whether during their journey, upon settling in their host country or in their relationship with their country of origin. The presentation will focus on two main themes: the 'zombification' of precarious migrants and the re-materialisation of their bodies through sensory memory. These analyses will be based on a body of work from various cultural and linguistic regions of the Americas, including Quebec, the United States, Mexico and Chile.
Tatiana Calderón Le Joliff is currently a 2025-2026 Fellow at the Collegium de Lyon. She is a professor and researcher at Adolfo Ibáñez University (Chile), specializing in border and migration literary studies and comparative poetics (French, Spanish, English).
