Miguel Gaete has a PhD in History of Art from The University of York. His research specialisations are European Romanticism and the period of explorations, with a focus on the synthesis between sciences, race, and colonialism in the visual depiction of Latin America by British and German artists. He holds a master’s degree in advanced studies in History of Art from the University of Barcelona, Spain, and he also gained a first PhD in aesthetics from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Miguel has been awarded fellowships from Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the Herzog August Bibliothek, the Paul Mellon Centre, and Gerda Henkel Stiftung. His first monograph, “Cultural Exchanges and Colonial Legacies in Latin America: German Romanticism in Chile, 1800–1899” (2023 Cambria Press, New York), received the prestigious Klaus Heyne Award 2023 for Research in German Romanticism Studies endowed by the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
