PhD student at the University of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès under the direction of Professor Paula Barreiro López. Her thesis focuses on the transnational network of the Taller de Gráfica Popular de México during the Cold War (1947-1963), continuing the research she started during her Master’s degree in Art History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Buffavand holds a double degree in art history and modern literature from the Université de Grenoble Alpes.

During the summer of 2021, she did an internship at the international research platform Modernitée(s) Décentralisée(s), MoDe(s). Since 2024, she is a research associate in the project “Political images and new worlds to be built: the visual culture of the Zapatista journey through life in Europe”, directed by Paula Barreiro Lopez and Sonia Kerfa, with MoDe(s) and the LabEx SMS – Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Toulouse.

In July 2024, she presented her research at the Journées des Jeunes Américanistes 2024, organized by the Institut Français d’Amérique latine and the Centre d’études mexicaines et centroaméricaines in Mexico City

Publications

Buffavand, Noa, “Revues d’art dans la base de données MoDe(s). Revista de arte / The Art Review et Puerto Rico dans l’axe transatlantique (1968-1971)”, Modernidade(s) Descentralizadas, July 2, 2022,[On Line] URL: https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/gis/revues-dart-dans-la-base-de-donnees-modes-revista-de-arte-the-art-review-et-puerto-rico-dans-laxe-transatlantique-1968-1971/.