Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
School of Humanities

Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, subaltern studies, infrastructure studies, media and power, coloniality, Blue Humanities, ecocriticism

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Participating in a Multi-campus Research Group (MRG) in Subaltern Studies and Popular Culture 2005-2010.

After publishing my book on the subalternization of the late nineteenth-century community of Canudos in Brazil I began working on contemporary Latin American film and visual culture. I am currently finishing a book on visual infrastructures in Latin America and looking forward to my next project on thinking with water.

Undergraduate classes taught at Irvine include: Piracy, Water Wars, Latin American Science Fiction, Narratives of Environmental Crisis, Reading with Theory, Globalization from Below, Popular Culture, Genre & Medium: Technologies of the Self, Aesthetics & Politics in Latin American Film, Cannibalism, 20th Century Latin American Literature, Literature and the State in Latin America

Graduate classes at Irvine include: Thinking with Infrastructure, Latin America in Theory, Practices & Theory of Translation; Politics, Representation and After; Subalternity/Community/Multitude; Coloniality & Postcoloniality in the Americas; Brazilian Genealogies, Latin American Film, Cultural Studies: Genealogies & Practices

“Um dia na vida: Copy, Enunciation, Chatter.” In Listening to Others: Eduardo Coutinho’s
Documentary Cinema, edited by Natalia Brizuela and Krista Brune. SUNY Press (Series in Latin American Cinema) May 2024.

“Infrastructure.” In Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics, edited by Gabriel Gorgi,Jens Andermann and Victoria Saramago. De Gruyter, 2023.

“Off Screen, Unsighted, Unthought” Forma: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory. January, 2024.

Co-written with Dan Nemser “Introduction: Making Worlds/Breaking Worlds: Infrastructure and Environment” Social Text (2022)

“Breathfrastructure” Foundry. Feb. 2021 https://uchri.org/foundry/reading-for-infrastructure/

"An Excess of Visibility, a Scarcity of Water" Discourse, Volume 43, Number 2, Spring 2021, pp. 189-215

“Containment, Carrying, Supply” Diacritics Johns Hopkins University Press Volume 49, Number 2, 2021 pp. 109-117.

“An expanse of water” Liquid Ecologies in the Arts. Ed., Lisa Blackmore and Liliana Gomez. Routledge, 2020.

“Art and our Surrounds: Emergent and Residual Languages” Art Margins 9:1, 2020.

“In-São-Paulo-Visible.” Revista Hispanica Moderna. Volume 73:1, Spring 2020.

“Paraguayan Counterlives” Authoritarianism, Cultural History and Political Resistance in Latin America: Exposing Paraguay.Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2017.

“Pueblo, Política, Policía.” In G. Coopertari, C. Sitnisky (Eds.), El estado de las cosas: cine latinoamericano en el nuevo milenio. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2015.

"Land" In H. Schwarz, S. Ray (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, Wiley-Blackwell. 2016.

“Idle Chatter”. Revista Hispánica Moderna, Volume 64(1), 2011, pp. 49-60.

Sentencing Canudos: Everydayness and Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010.

"On Latinamericanism after 9/11". Politica Comun, 4, 2007.

“Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo” Blackwell Companion to Latin American Culture and Literature, 2008.

“Cara Feia al Enemigo: The Paraguayan Press and the War of the Triple Alliance.” Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies, 2007.

“Everydayness and Subalternity” South Atlantic Quarterly Vol 106, No. 1, December 2006, pp. 21-38.

"Two Proposals for an Aesthetic Intervention in Politics: Reveiw of Nelly Richard's The Insubordination of Signs and Masculine/Feminine and Doris Sommer's Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education" in New Centennial Review Vol 5 No 30, 2005, pp. 207-232.

Subalternizing Canudos,” Modern Language Notes. Vol. 120 No. 2, March 2005, pp. 355-382.

“The War of the End of the World or the end of ideology,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (London) Vol 13, No 2, 2004, pp. 221-241.

“La peregrinación de Bayoán: writing (and failing) in the house of pilgrims,” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana. Vol 30, No 1, May 2001, pp. 64-80.

“Reading Roberto Schwarz: Outside Out-of-Place Ideas,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (London) Vol 8, No 1, June 1999, pp. 21-33.

"Black God, White Devil: Wishing, Speaking, Lying," Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies Vol 10, Spring 1999, pp. 44-56.

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)<br> Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)<br> Latin American Studies Associations (LASA)<br> Modern Language Association (MLA)

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Last updated
03/25/2024