She received her BA in literature and linguistics from the Catholic University of Chile, and her PhD in Spanish and Latin American literature from Rutgers University. Cabello Hutt’s research focuses on modern Latin America with emphasis on intellectual history, transnational/ transatlantic networks of writers and intellectuals, gender studies, and queer theory. She has published on Gabriela Mistral as well as on the conditions of cultural production and the networks involving writers and artists such as Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Carmen Conde, and Maruja Mallo.