Eduardo Maciel
Eduardo Maciel is an Argentinian researcher and teacher who has lived in El Salvador since 2007. He currently works as the coordinator for Memory and Pedagogy in the confederation Caritas Internationalis in Chalatenango. He studied Liberation Theology at the Central American University José Simeón Cañas, where he is now pursuing a PhD in Ibero-American Philosophy. Through the lens of theories of post-memory, his doctoral research focuses on places of memory related to the Salvadoran armed conflict, especially the processes, narratives and aesthetic representations of community monuments and murals. From 2012 to 2015, he served as the coordinator of the Theology Department at the Lutheran Salvadoran University, an institution where he continues to work as a volunteer teacher and researcher. His research interests include liberation theology in El Salvador, memory studies, and the aesthetics of Walter Benjamin.