Dr Miguel Gaete is a PhD in History of Art from The University of York. His research specialisations are Romanticism and the period of explorations, with an emphasis on the synthesis among sciences, race, and colonialism in the visual depiction of non-Western regions, particularly South America. His academic interests also include post-colonial theory and the aesthetic theory of the Sublime and its impact on contemporary visual arts, urbanism and architecture.

 

Dr Gaete holds a master’s degree in advanced studies in History of Art from the University of Barcelona, Spain. He has received several scholarships, given presentations at international congresses and published widely. His monograph on German Romanticism in Chile is under contract with Cambria Press in New York and is due to be published in the summer of 2022. Moreover, Dr Gaete has been recently awarded fellowships from Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the Bibliothek Herzog August and Gerda Henkel Stiftung.