There, she continued studying, but this time, the engraving career at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège until 1985, the year which she returned to Chile.
[8] In addition, she gave La Cátedra Escritor en Residencia at Universidad Católica, where she talked about "the amplitude of the thought and the reflection of the students in the classroom, to enrich the academic work and life of the students and professors of the Facultad de Letras UC, like other faculties of the university.” Guadalupe was part of the First International Congress of Latin American Feminine Literature (Sp.
Primer Congreso Internacional de Literatura Femenina), which started on Monday, August 17, 1987, where topics such as literary criticism, feminist theory, literature and patriarchy, Latin American poetry and narrative, strategies of feminine discourse, meetings of writers from other countries and poetic recitals, were discussed.
Congress where Guadalupe's work was also considered as: "a need to territorialize writing in a footprint that seeks to recompose the paths of memory.
The recognized critic of modern Latin American Literature, Julio Ortega, refers to the narrative of Guadalupe Santa Cruz and is distinguished by three aspects.
“First, by its investigative character (by its path of desire, its exploration of vulnerable corporeality, its follow-up of the marginal subject to the urban modernizing program).
Second, because of its narrative strategy (implicit dramas, metaphors of the malaise of the discomfort of the critical conscience and the ethical sensitivity, voices of popular record torn).