graduation at Estudos Latino Americanos from Oberlin College (1992), master's at Literatura Comparada from University of Chicago (1993) and doctorate at Literatura Comparada from University of Chicago (2000). Has experience in Language, acting on the following subjects: roberto bolaño, teoria literária, josé maría arguedas, jacques derrida and literatura hispano-americana. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Throughout the Western tradition, literature has been affiliated with a patriarchal lineage guided by an Adamic principle: the act of naming for the first time. Two crucial texts attest to this affiliation: Walter Benjamin's 1916 Über Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen', and Viktor Shklovsky's 1917 Art as Device. These essays can be read as paradigmatic examples of foundi…
The project will examine aporias within contemporary Literature (and literary criticism), focusing on what are the double binds, epistemic violences that run through this clash through the search for solutions to ethical problems raised and who are the excluded from this account. Radiation issues (within the Fukushima nuclear accident, in Tawada YMko and Murakami Ryk), suicide (in David F…
The project seeks to understand the ghosts that haunt the text of Amuleto, a novel written by Roberto Bolaño, thinking about them based on a dialogue between Jacques Derrida's concept of spectrology and the reading key of the historical novel, taking into account both the classic theory by György Lukács on the genre and contemporary contributions. Questions about the way in which violence…
This project calls into question notions contrary to the position according to which the comparison activity would necessarily emerge only from an opposition of contrasts between places, contexts and authorship, justifying a theory of fidelity to concepts such as the text, speech and gender, as if literature, as such, would only be comparable to itself. Though a theoretical framework that…
Elaborating the category of black drama as a specific experience of the black people in the diaspora and, at the same time, as a narrative process of this experience, this project aims to develop comparative analyzes of the Diário Íntimo and Diário do Hospício, written by Lima Barreto in the first decades of the twentieth century in Rio de Janeiro, and of Quarto de Despejo: diário de uma …
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This project was written with the purpose of applying for a grant for a period of research abroad as a visiting scholar at UNAM, Mexico City, from August 2016 to December 2016. The main goal is to study feminicides in Mexico, more specifically in relation to the novel 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. This research proposal wishes to better comprehend the constitution of the female body in biopolit…
If the literary criticism devoted do Roberto Bolaño's work commonly associates his oeuvre with violence, at times even identifying the latter as his work's organizing principle, this research project seeks to analyze the narrative structure of a selection of short stories by the Bolaño to test the hypothesis that his narratives in fact constitute an inventory of possible ethical positions…
This project aims to achieve a grant for a period abroad (Bolsa de Estágio de Pesquisa no Exterior), to be held at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, from September 4th to December 4th, under the supervision of professor Gareth Williams, from the departments of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The research project linked to the masters progr…
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