Nicolás Aguía Betancourt is a PhD student in Latin American Cultural and Literary Studies. His research examines the relationship between technology and social crises in the Andes and the Caribbean through literary texts and music. He is currently studying the works of José María Arguedas and Gamaliel Churata, analyzing how economic history becomes inscribed in their literary work. Aguía is also interested in debates on transhumanism.

In 2024, Nicolás received second place for the Raymund Schwager Memorial Award, presented by the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, for his paper “Mimetic Images of Conflict and Accumulation: Negative Reciprocity in José María Arguedas’ Every Blood.” That same year, he was honored with the Graduate Student Research Award from the North Central Council of Latin Americanists (NCCLA) for his paper “La inmunización del autoritarismo en Chile: populismo y destierro de lo político,” a comparative analysis of the works of José Joaquín Brunner and Ernesto Laclau.

He has published academic articles in Revista Iberoamericana, Taller de Letras, Chasqui: revista de literatura y cultura latinoamericana e indígena, Cuadernos de Literatura del Caribe e Hispanoamérica, and Ricercare.