Nancy Vargas holds a Bachelor's degree in Humanities and Spanish Language from the University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, and a Master's degree in Literature from the same university. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Tübingen, Germany, conducting research on "Cultural Transfers and Network Analysis in Six Colombian Literary Magazines (1904-1920)" as part of the project "Digitization and Analysis of Cultural Transfers in Colombian Literary Magazines (1892-1950)" funded by the DFG. She has also contributed to the books La edición de cuento en Colombia en el siglo XX: apuestas editoriales y legitimación de un género (2022) and as a co-author of the book Edición de literatura en Colombia, 1944-2016: setenta años de Ediciones Espiral, Tercer Mundo Editores y Norma (2023). Nancy is also a researcher at the Colombia: Tradiciones de la palabra group, University of Antioquia.

The press played a significant role in the diffusion of local and international ideas in Colombia throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Cultural magazines were particularly important in the search for the establishment of a national literature, as they discussed various perspectives from political and aesthetic points of view. These magazines have become an essential object of study for the history of Colombian literature. Scholars have used them as a source of research to understand the interest that some publications had in promoting the works of national and foreign literary authors and movements. The ideas present in literary magazines influenced national forms of expression. They also served as documentation sources of the discussions surrounding the transformation processes of the artistic, literary, and cultural fields. Cultural magazines were not only a platform for disseminating literary works and other texts such as criticism or history, but also places to track other information about the literary system's functioning, such as editorial practices, agents, disputes, controversies, and relationships established with other literary systems.

This research project aims to contribute to understanding the dynamics of cultural transfers in a corpus of six cultural magazines published in the first two decades of the 20th century in Colombia, using the theory of cultural transfers, hemerographic studies (estudios hemerográficos), and network analysis.