Rafael Mendes Silva

Rafael Mendes Silva is a PhD candidate in the Hispanic Department at Trinity College Dublin and an Early Career Researcher at the Trinity Long Room Hub. His research theorises the Latin American Gothic at the intersection of the grotesque, particularly to show how non-normative practices and behaviours give voice to marginalised individuals through working in and against dominant ideologies. Outside academia, he works as a poet and fiction writer. He has been selected for Poetry Ireland's 2023 Introduction Series and was awarded the Irish Writers Centre/Tyrone Guthrie Centre Lacuna Bursary 2024.