Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo

MPhil, Wolfson College

Matthew's MPhil thesis considered the construction of national identity in Garcia

Marquez's "Cien años de soledad." He completed his undergraduate studies in English
literature and Spanish literature (double honours) at St. Thomas University (New
Brunswick, Canada). In April 2005 Matthew presented a paper entitled 'Defining Magical
Realism as an Aesthetic Narrative Mode in the Works of Borges, García Márquez and
Carpentier' at the conference Aesthetics and Politics in Postcolonial Studies. Matthew's
graduate studies in Oxford were
assisted by a Rhodes Scholarship.