Natalia Castro Picón

She is a François Chevalier fellow at MIAS.

Natalia Castro Picón is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. She earned her Ph.D. from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and her B.A. in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She specializes in modern and contemporary Iberian literature and culture, integrating Cultural Studies with a glottopolitical perspective, which considers the political dimension of language and discourse. Her first book, La fiesta del fin del mundo. Apocalipsis cultural en el periodo entre crisis (España 2008–2020), examines apocalyptic imaginaries in the cultural sphere—from cinema and literature to advertising and political communication—showing how they shaped sociopolitical narratives during the “inter-crisis” period. She is also a member of the coordination team of ALCESXXI and participates in other international research groups, such as Transnational Elites, Inequalities and Values (Princeton–Humboldt).