The Department of Romance Studies gives voice to the literatures and cultures of those parts of the world where French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish are or have been spoken. It offers students a broad range of opportunities for language acquisition, as well as the chance to become sophisticated interpreters of the literature, film, philosophy and material culture produced within and influenced by the Romance languages (i.e., those languages ultimately derived from the language spoken by the ancient Romans).

The classes are intimate, idea-driven, and student-centered. The Department of Romance Studies strives to create an atmosphere of intense intellectual engagement across linguistic and textual boundaries, and students are encouraged to take advantage of the wide array of on-campus lectures, events and resources available to them (including the Language House), as well as Cornell's extensive Study Abroad programs. The department is also home to diacritics, a distinguished journal of literary and cultural theory.

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Rogier Gerrits

Visiting Scholar

Publications

Book

 

Zwischen mystere cachez und parole pure. Allegorie, Allegorese und Interkonfessionalität in der französischen geistlichen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022.

 

Edited Volumes

 

Daniel Fliege/Rogier Gerrits (eds.): (Re)formationen in der Romania? Zur Frage der Interkonfessionalität in den romanischen Literaturen der Frühen Neuzeit. Heidelberg, Winter, 2020 (Studia Romanica)

 

Luisa Coscarelli/Rogier Gerrits/Thomas Throckmorton (eds.): Interkonfessionalität in der Frühen Neuzeit. Kontexte und Konkretionen. Berlin, Peter Lang, 2018 (Hamburger Beiträge zur Germanistik 59)

 

Articles

 

“Morsure, logette, doux nid. Die unheilbare Wunde in der französischen geistlichen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit,“ in: Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio,  Marc Föcking (eds.), Die ›ewige Wunde‹. Beiträge zu einer Kulturgeschichte unheilbarer Wunden in der Vormoderne. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 174, 2023.

 

Grasping the „merveilleux“ at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Working Paper, Collaborative Research Centre “Episteme in Motion“ (planned for publication 2023)

 

“Entre le merveilleux et le vraisemblable. La représentation des miracles dans les hagiographies post-tridentines,“ in: Marie Guthmüller, Daniel Fliege und Philipp Stenzig (eds.), Preuve et introspection dans l'hagiographie après le Concile de Trente. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature XLIX/96 (2022)

 

„Wunder erfahren. Erfahrungswissen und Wunder in französischen Mirakelberichten der Frühen Neuzeit,“ in: Isabelle Fellner, Christina Schaefer (eds.), Facetten der experientia. Zum Rekurs auf Erfahrung und Erfahrungswissen in der frühneuzeitlichen Romania. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2022

 

“Toute Image à l’Objet ressemble seulement. Allegorese und Verstellung in den Sonnets chrétiens (1677) von Laurent Drelincourt,“ in: Doering, Pia (ed.), Verstellungskünste Religiöse und politische Hypokrisie in Literatur und bildender Kunst. Bielefeld, Aisthetis Verlag, 2022

 

“Vous les verrez depeints au tableau que voicy. Allegorisches Personal im dritten Gesang der Tragiques (1616) von Agrippa d’Aubigné,“ in: Morgen-Glantz. Zeitschrift der Christian Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft 29 (2019)

 

“[…] il ne vous est de Christ rien que l’habit resté. Allegorie und Interkonfessionalität in der Exercice spirituel (1606) von Paul Perrot de la Sale,“ in: Luisa Coscarelli et al. (eds.), Interkonfessionalität in der Frühen Neuzeit. Kontexte und Konkretionen. Berlin, Peter Lang 2018.

           

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Zixiao (Zoe) Li

Graduate Student in French

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Tatiana Bedoya

Graduate Student in Spanish

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stb88@cornell.edu

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Romina Wainberg

Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow

Publications

 

2022-2023 Publications 

Books

Sujetos del latinoamericanismo. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Co-edited with Héctor Hoyos and Florencia Garramuño, 2023.

Queer Latin American Voices. Weston: Katakana Editores. Co-edited with Alberto Quintero. Forthcoming, 2023.

 

Book chapters

“Writing about Writing Amidst the End of Worlds: An Invitation.” Post-Global Aesthetics: Twenty-First Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures. Edited by Gesine Müller and Benjamin Loy. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022.


“Alter-regímenes escópicos. Modos de ver y de ser visto en la narrativa especulativa contemporánea.” Régimen escópico y experiencia. Figuraciones de la mirada y el cuerpo en la literatura y las artes. Edited by Alicia Montes and Cristina Ares. Buenos Aires, Los Angeles: Argus-a, 2022. 

“O que há de real no virtual.” Arte e Inovação em Tempos de Pandemia. Co-authored with Ami Schiess. Edited by Rodolfo Augusto Melo Ward de Oliveira. Brasília: Universidade de Brasília, 2022.

 

Articles

“Cómo banalizar la deconstrucción en solo cinco pasos. Usos, ¿abusos? y potencialidades del término ‘deconstrucción’ en el presente,” Revista Luthor, Volume 53, 2022, 1-27.

“¿Puede la literatura hacer metafísica? Metafísica no-proposicional y aperturas inter-cosmológicas en ‘Meu tio o Iauaretê’ de João Guimarães Rosa,” Revista Iberoamericana, Issue 281, Volume 88, 2022, 927-38.

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Brisa Núñez García

Lecturer of Spanish Language

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bn275@cornell.edu

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Emily Epperson

Lecturer of French Language

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ee332@cornell.edu

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Janeth Arias

Lecturer of Quechua Language

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Vanessa Gubbins

Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies

Publications

  • “Hölderlin’s Dionysiac Foundations: Translation and the Communal Politics of (Un)natural Mothers.” Modern Language Notes (MLN), vol.136, no.5, December 2021. 
  • “Salvaje performance, soberana (in)decisión. Leyendo República salvaje de Jacques Lezra.” Res Pública, vol. 25, no.1, 2022. 
  • “General Strike: Feminist Performance?” Forthcoming in Bodies on the Front Lines: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Brenda Werth and Katherine Zien, University of Michigan Press. 
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vmg33@cornell.edu

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Carolyn Fornoff

Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies

Publications

“Reflexive Extractivist Aesthetics.” FORMA Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 2023, pp. 37-69.

 “Greening Mexican Cinema.” Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2, edited by Stephen Rust, Selma Monani, and Seán Cubitt, Routledge, 2023, pp. 34-51.

“#BertaVive: Teaching Environmental Justice through Central American Culture.” Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context, edited by Gloria Elizabeth Chacón and Mónica Albizúrez Gil, MLA Press, 2022, pp. 315-325.

“Adapting Race: El hombre de los hongos as Mex-blaxploitation.” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, vol. 4, no. 2, 2022, pp. 29-44.

“Blackness and Racial Melodrama in 1970s Mexican Cinema.” The Lost Cinema of Mexico, edited by Olivia Cosentino and Brian Price, University Press of Florida, 2022, pp. 142-165.

“Documenting Lifestyle Migration in Anayansi Prado’s Paraíso for Sale (2011).” The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema, edited by Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián and Antonio Gómez, Bloomsbury Press, 2022, pp. 247-266.

“The Rio Grande as It Could Be: Beatriz Cortez’s The Underworld.” ASAP/Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 2021, pp. 379-402.

“Mexican Cinema as Petrocinema.” Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinema, vol. 18, no. 3, 2021, pp. 377-387.

“Planetary Poetics of Extinction in Contemporary Mexican Poetry.” Mexican Literature as World Literature, edited by Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Bloomsbury Press, 2021, pp. 231-245.

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Leonardo Velloso-Lyons

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

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lg594@cornell.edu

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