Laura Patricia Zuntini de Izarra

Laura Patricia Zuntini de Izarra is Full Professor at the University of Sao Paulo; she graduated in English Literature (1974) from the Juan XXIII Institute (Argentina), Master (1989), PhD (1995) and Livre Docência (2006) in Linguistic and Literary Studies in English from the University of São Paulo. She received two FAPESP postdoctoral fellowships at the University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies-Trinity College Dublin (2004) and at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (2013) where she was also visiting professor at the School of English. In 2024, she was Research Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin (TCD/Fapesp). Currently, she coordinates the W.B.Yeats Chair of Irish Studies (since 2009) and the exchange agreements between USP and universities in Ireland. She is a former member of the International Board of the An Foras Feasa Research Institute (NUI-Maynooth) and current member of the International Editorial Board of the Irish University Review (ISSN 0021-1427), the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies and the Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE), as well as national academic journals. She was president of APLIESP (Association of English Teachers of the State of São Paulo, 1991-1993); co-founder(1988) and President (2008-2017) of the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies (ABEI) and of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS f.2003; 2006-2009); a founder member of the Association of Irish Studies of the South, Argentina (AEIS 2017) and in 2022 she founded the Alliance of Chairs of Irish Studies in Latin America. At present, she is vice-chairperson of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures for Latin America and the Caribbean (IASIL 2018-2025). She was Deputy Director and Vice-President of USP National and International Cooperation Agency (2015-2021). Author of Mirrors and Holographic Labyrinths. The Process of an Aesthetic Synthesis in the Novels of John Banville (NY 1999), Narrativas de la diáspora irlandesa bajo la Cruz del Sur (Buenos Aires 2010) and Cultural Trauma: Irish Literary Resonances (SP 2020). Editor of several books and co-editor of the ABEI Journal- The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies (since 1999) and of W. B. Yeats Chairs anual series Lectures (since 2010). She coordinated the research group of Foreign Literatures at ANPOLL, the National Association of Postgraduate and Research (1998-2002), the FAPESP Thematic Project, "From Ireland to Brazil: Critical Texts" (2006-2009) and USPs projects in international research networks: SPeCTReSS (Social Performance, Cultural Trauma and Reestablishing Social Sovereignty/ 2014-2017/ TCD), "Crises of Democracy" (2018-2019/ TCD) and União Iberoamericana de Universidades (2018-2021/ UCM). Since 1998, she has been the leader of the research group "Literary narratives and identities in English-speaking diasporic spaces", registered at CNPq (National Research Council). Her interdisciplinary projects and publications are in Irish studies, Irish in South America, diaspora studies and theories, (post/de)colonial studies, memory and cultural trauma. She has been the organizer of several events and co-curator of traveling exhibitions: "Roger Casement in Brazil: The Rubber, the Amazon and the Atlantic World, 1884-1916" (2010) and "Roger Casement/Silvino Santos. Journey to Putumayo and tributaries" (2016) in Brazil and abroad (Spain, Ireland, United States, Peru, Argentina). She was also a consultant of the awarded documentary Secrets from Putumayo (2020) by Aurélio Michiles, a W. B. Yeats Chairs project (2010-2020) and co-editor of the Portuguese translation of The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement and books on the film. She currently coordinates three research projects in the area of post-colonial studies, diasporas and the internationalizing of the Irish Revolution from the perspective of cultural trauma and decolonization. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)