Carolina Gainza

Carolina Olivia Gainza Cortés
Born (1978-03-29) 29 March 1978
Santiago, Chile
Pen nameCarolina Gainza
OccupationProfessor
Education
GenreElectronic literature
Chilean
SubjectDigital literature and sociology
Notable worksDigital Narratives and Poetics in Latin America. Literary Production in Informational Capitalism, 2018
Website
centroparalashumanidades.udp.cl/equipo/carolina-gainza/

Carolina Olivia Gainza Cortés (born 29 March 1978)[1] is a Chilean researcher, sociologist, and politician. As a researcher for digital literature and culture in Latin America, she focuses on aesthetics, production, circulation and reception.[2] As a Chilean sociologist and politician,[1] she is a member of the Broad Front. She was Undersecretary of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile under the government of President Gabriel Boric between March 2022 and November 2024.[3]

Life and education

Cortés is one of four children of Pedro Gainza and Mirna Cortés.[4] She completed her secondary education at Liceo No. 7 in Providencia. She completed a master's degree in Latin American studies as well as higher education studies in sociology at the University of Chile.[1] She also earned a doctorate in Hispanic languages and literature from the University of Pittsburgh, United States.[5][6] Her 2013 doctoral dissertation, "Escrituras Electrónicas en América Latina. Producción Literaria en el Capitalismo Informacional" (Electronic Writing in Latin America: Literary Production in Informational Capitalism), was supervised by Juan Duchesne.[7][8]

Political career

She was a member of the Convergencia Social (CS) party[1] and has been a founding member of the Frente Amplio since its founding in 2024. In February 2022, she was appointed by then-president-elect Gabriel Boric as head of the Undersecretary of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation,[1] from 11 March 2022, with the formal start of the administration until 6 November 2024.[9][3][10][11] In this position, she was instrumental in creating a gender unit, InES Género (Spanish: Innovación en Educación Superior Género), at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile to help change university cultures and organizations to ensure that equity and equality are driving forces.[12] She also led the development of Knowledge 2030, a ministry initiative to strengthen humanist, arts and social sciences research and development.[13]

To promote the public role of research, she became a founding member of the Association of Researchers in Arts and Humanities and was a board member from 2017 to 2021.[14][15]

Electronic literature career

Gainza specializes in digital literature, digital culture, Latin American cultural studies, cultural sociology, and literary theory.[5] She has been described as "one of the most important pioneers of Luso-Hispanic Digital Cultural Studies".[16]

She was an associate professor at the Escuela de Literatura Creativa (School of Creative Literature) at the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile)[6][17] and began her role as associate professor in the Facultad de Comunicación y Letras (Faculty of Communication and Letters) in January 2025.[14] Gainza directed the Fondect project "Critical Cartography of Latin American Digital Literature" (2018-2021).[6] She was also a co-researcher in "From Modernism to Digital: Technology in Latin American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries"[18] at Youngstown State University from 2017 to 2019 and participated in the international networking project "Digital Culture: Crossroads between Narratives, Art and Technology" from 2018 to 2019.[6]

In 2021, Gainza worked with academic Carolina Zúñiga (Diego Portales University) to create the Digital Culture Laboratory at Diego Portales University and developed the "Cartography of Latin American Digital Literature",[19] an infrastructure used by many scholars.[20] The 2021 "Cartography of Latin American Digital Literature" won second runner up in the "Best DH Data Visualization" category at the 2021 Digital Humanities Awards.

She directed the Revista Lab from 2013 to 2018[5] and curated an exhibition of Chilean digital works at the 13th Media Arts Biennial in 2017.[6]

Gainza is a member of the Literary Advisory Board for the Electronic Literature Organization.[21]

Selected works

Books

  • Narrativas y poéticas digitales en América Latina. Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2018 ISBN 9563960300.[22][23]
  • Cartografía Crítica de la Literatura Digital Latinoamericana. Sao Carlos: EDUFSCar, 2023 ISBN 9788576006053.[24][25]

Articles

  • "Emerging literary fields: Digital Literature in Latin America" (Spanish: "Campos literarios emergentes: literatura digital en América Latina"), Estudios avanzados 2014, which analyzes two Latin American digital works: Word Toys by Belén Gache and Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez's Gabriella Infinita.[26]
  • "Networks of Collaboration & Creation in Latin America",[2] a research article that examines the changes that digital technology has brought to Latin American literature, 2017[27]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e S.A.P, El Mercurio (1 February 2022). "Paridad de género y mayoría de profesionales de la U. de Chile: Quiénes son los subsecretarios nombrados por Gabriel Boric" [Gender parity and majority of U. de Chile professionals: Who are the undersecretaries appointed by Gabriel Boric?]. Emol (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Celebrating Women in E-Lit". Electronic Literature Lab. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Artículo: Subsecretaria Del Minciencia, Carolina Gainza: "El Desarrollo Productivo Sostenible Y El Bienestar Social No Pueden Ir Separados"" [Article: Undersecretary of the Ministry of Science, Carolina Gainza: "Sustainable Productive Development and Social Welfare Cannot Be Separated"]. MinCiencia (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  4. ^ "Mrs Carolina Gainza Cortés". World Science Forum. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  5. ^ a b c Hermosilla, Ignacio (3 February 2022). "Quién es Carolina Gainza Cortés: académica y nueva subsecretaria de Ciencias de Gabriel Boric" [Who is Carolina Gainza Cortés: academic and Gabriel Boric's new Undersecretary of Science]. BioBioChile - La Red de Prensa Más Grande de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Carolina Gainza". Laboratorio de Transformaciones Sociales - Universidad Diego Portales (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 May 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  7. ^ "Carolina Gainza – Red de investigadoras" (in Spanish). 9 July 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  8. ^ Gainza, Carolina (2013). "Escrituras Electrónicas en América Latina. Producción Literaria en el Capitalismo Informacional". pitt.edu/. University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  9. ^ Nacional, Biblioteca del Congreso. "Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional - Ley Chile" [Library of the National Congress - Chilean Law]. www.bcn.cl/leychile (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  10. ^ Riquelme, Rodrigo (25 September 2024). "UC Davis Chile and Universidad de Concepción are awarded project in the competition 'Challenges for post-fire recovery 2023'". UC Davis Chile Life Sciences Innovation Center. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  11. ^ "Artículo: Ministerio De Ciencia Recibió A Comitiva Ganadora Del Premio Franz Edelman Award 2022 Por El Desarrollo De Herramientas De Vanguardia Durante La Pandemia" [Article: Ministry of Science Receives the Winning Committee of the 2022 Franz Edelman Award for the Development of Cutting-Edge Tools During the Pandemic]. MinCiencia (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  12. ^ "Artículo: Ministra (S) Carolina Gainza: 'Transversalizar El Enfoque De Género En Todo El Sistema Ctci Es Una Urgencia'". MinCiencia (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  13. ^ Palacios, Jorge (4 December 2023). "Carolina Gainza, subsecretaria de Ciencia: 'Tradicionalmente se ha reducido el desarrollo de la sociedad al crecimiento económico'". The Clinic (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  14. ^ a b "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  15. ^ Campos, Débora (7 February 2023). "La ciencia chilena se feminiza" [Chilean science is becoming more feminized]. Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  16. ^ Larson, Susan (30 September 2021). Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. Routledge. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-000-45638-7.
  17. ^ Chacón, Hilda, ed. (2019). Online activism in Latin America. Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture (First published ed.). New York London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-315-20230-3.
  18. ^ "Carolina Gainza". Centro para las Humanidades UDP - Universidad Diego Portales. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  19. ^ "Cartografía Digital" [Digital Cartography]. www.cartografiadigital.cl. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
  20. ^ Vásquez, Carolina Zuñiga (2023). "Cartografía de la Literatura Digital Latinoamericana: El archivo digital como exploración narrativa". Matlit: Materialidades da Literatura (in Spanish). 10 (1): 25–36. doi:10.14195/2182-8830_10-1_2. ISSN 2182-8830.
  21. ^ "Literary Advisory Board (LAB) – Electronic Literature Organization". Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  22. ^ Navas Ocaña, Isabel (1 September 2020). "Las escritoras en el canon de la literatura digital en español" [Women writers in the canon of digital literature in Spanish]. Studia Neophilologica. 92 (3): 337–360. doi:10.1080/00393274.2020.1730235. ISSN 0039-3274.
  23. ^ Gómez, Verónica (8 May 2020). "Narrativas y poéticas digitales en América Latina. Producción literaria en el capitalismo informacional". A Contracorriente: Una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. 17 (3): 321–325. ISSN 1548-7083.
  24. ^ Botero Betancur, Constanza (2023). "Gainza, C. y Zúñiga, C. Cartografía de la literatura digital latinoamericana. Visualización, archivo y preservación de obras literarias digitales, 2018-2021" [Gainza, C., and Zúñiga, C. Mapping Latin American Digital Literature. Visualization, Archiving, and Preservation of Digital Literary Works, 2018–2021]. Publicaciones de la Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (in Spanish). 4: e054. doi:10.24215/27187470e054. ISSN 2718-7470.
  25. ^ Vásquez, Carolina Zuñiga (2023). "Cartografía de la Literatura Digital Latinoamericana: El archivo digital como exploración narrativa" [Mapping Latin American Digital Literature: The Digital Archive as a Narrative Exploration]. Matlit: Materialidades da Literatura (in Spanish). 10 (1): 25–36. doi:10.14195/2182-8830_10-1_2. ISSN 2182-8830.
  26. ^ Gainza, Caroline (2014). "Campos literarios emergentes: literatura digital en América Latina" [Emerging literary fields: Digital Literature in Latin America]. Estudios Avanzados: 29–43. ISSN 0718-5014.
  27. ^ Gainza, Carolina (2017). "Networks of Collaboration and Creation in Latin American Digital Literature". CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. 19. doi:10.7771/1481-4374.2918.
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