Carolina Gainza

Carolina Olivia Gainza Cortés (born 29 March 1978) 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. As a Chilean sociologist and politician, 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. 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.

Political career She was a member of the Convergencia Social (CS) party In this position, she was instrumental in creating a gender unit, InES Género , at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile to help change university cultures and organizations to ensure that equity and equality are driving forces. She also led the development of Knowledge 2030, a ministry initiative to strengthen humanist, arts and social sciences research and development.

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.

Electronic literature career Gainza specializes in digital literature, digital culture, Latin American cultural studies, cultural sociology, and literary theory.

She was an associate professor at the Escuela de Literatura Creativa (School of Creative Literature) at the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile) and began her role as associate professor in the Facultad de Comunicación y Letras (Faculty of Communication and Letters) in January 2025. 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. an infrastructure used by many scholars. 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

Selected works

Books . Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2018 . . Sao Carlos: EDUFSCar, 2023 .

Articles "Emerging literary fields: Digital Literature in Latin America" , Estudios avanzados 2014, which analyzes two Latin American digital works: Word Toys by Belén Gache and Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez's Gabriella Infinita. "Networks of Collaboration & Creation in Latin America",