Marina Peñalosa Montero
Lecturer of Spanish Language
José Rafael Ponciano
Graduate Student
Diego Cepeda
Graduate Student
Tatiana Bedoya
Graduate Student
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.
Brisa Núñez García
Lecturer of Spanish Language
Vanessa Gubbins
Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies
Publications
- “Disturbios.” Escrituras Americanas, vol. 6, no. 1/2, 2024
- “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?” in Bodies on the Front Lines: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Brenda Werth and Katherine Zien. Michigan University Press, 2024.
Carolyn Fornoff
Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies
Publications
“Aping King Kong in Hernán Robleto’s Una mujer en la selva.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 58, no. 1, 2024, pp. 83-106.
“Reflexive Extractivist Aesthetics.” FORMA Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 2023, pp. 37-69. Awarded 2024 LASA Mexico Forum Best Article in the Humanities Prize.
“Extractivism.” Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics, edited by Jens Andermann, Gabriel Giorgi, and Victoria Saramago, De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 45-65.
“Greening Mexican Cinema.” Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2, edited by Stephen Rust, Selma Monani, and Seán Cubitt, Routledge, 2023, pp. 34-51. Awarded 2024 LASA Film Studies Section Best Article Prize.
“#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.
“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.
“Adapting Race: El hombre de los hongos as Mex-blaxploitation.” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, vol. 4, no. 2, 2022, pp. 29-44.