Fabricio Tocco
Lecturer in Spanish Studies, the Australian National University
Dr. Fabricio Tocco is an Argentinian-Brazilian researcher and educator. He is a Lecturer in Spanish Studies and the Convenor of Spanish and of Portuguese in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, at the ANU. His research deals with the intersections of contemporary literature, film and history, especially on how genre fiction inform and is informed by literary and political theory in Latin American studies. His first book, Latin American Detectives Against Power (Lexington, 2022), was awarded the International Crime Fiction Association Book Prize 2022. His second book, Precarious Secrets. A History of the Political Thriller in Latin America, will be published by University of Texas Press.
