My academic research focuses on examining how neoliberal market dynamics and the many possibilities of mass and social media favor the exhibition of the biographies and bodies of literary authors. My dissertation analyzes the commodification and manipulation of the contemporary authorial figure, as well as the possibilities of agency that certain writers have been able to find in recent decades. Through the cases of seven Latin American and Spanish authors writing in the 21st century whose work and engagement with the public redraw the limits of literature and culture, I aim to demonstrate that by adopting different literary postures these authors are promoting not only their work but also the mobilization of anti-hegemonic activism, the incorporation of new voices into the transnational publishing market, and the widening of the literary experience, contributing to the resignification of the concept of literature. One of the goals of my dissertation is to draw attention to a new wave of Latin American literature, such as those works emerging from authors like Mario Bellatin, that are felling the walls that have traditionally created and contained spaces of literary distinction. Thanks to the CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship, I traveled to Mexico City to meet Mario Bellatin and obtain access to some of his materials that go beyond written text but also complement and constitute part of his literary project. I also had the opportunity to interview him about his own vision on the concept of authorship, on how his biography and his body feature in his works and literary goals as a creator.