A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

Lisa DeLeonardisis Austen-Stokes Professor in art of the ancient Americas at Johns Hopkins University. She has authored several works on the art, architecture, and cartography of vice-regal Peru. Her current project, “A Transatlantic Response to Worlds that Shake,” was undertaken as the Charles K. Williams II fellow in Historic Preservation and Conservation at the American Academy in Rome (2018). The Rome Prize was inspired by an earlier study of the architecture of Santa Cruz de Lancha, published recently as “Paredes ingrávidas de efecto teatral” in El arte antes historia (eds. Curatola et al., 2020). Her book project explores Jesuit, Indigenous, and Afro-Peruvian influences on eighteenth-century architecture and material culture.

Peter Elmoreis Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He is the author of Los muros invisibles. Lima y la modernidad en la novela del siglo XX (Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015), La estación de los encuentros. Ensayos y artículos (Peisa, 2010), El perfil de la palabra. La obra de Julio Ramón Ribeyro (Fondo de Cultura Económica-Fondo Editorial de la PUCP, 2002) and La fábrica de la memoria. La crisis de la representación en la novela histórica latinoamericana (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1997). His latest book, Los juicios finales. Mentalidades andinas y cultura peruana moderna , is forthcoming. He has published four novels: Enigma de los cuerpos (Peisa, 1995), Las pruebas del fuego (Peisa, 1999), El fondo de las aguas (Peisa, 2006), and El náufrago de la santa (Peisa, 2013). He has coauthored several plays with Yuyachkani, Perú´s premier theatre group.

Sibylle Fischer(Ph.D. Columbia) is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature, and Africana Studies at New York University (NYU). Before joining NYU, she taught in the Literature Program and Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. Her Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (2004) received the Frantz Fanon Award (Caribbean Philosophical Association), the Singer Kovacs Award (Modern Language Association), and the Bryce Wood Award (Latin American Studies Association), and in 2007 was the cowinner of the Sybil and Gordon Lewis Award (Caribbean Studies Association). She is the editor of a new translation of Cirilo Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés (2005), and is currently working on a project about political subjectivity and violence.

Gustavo Furtadois Associate Professor of Latin American literature and cinema at Duke University and the author of Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Todd S. Garthis Associate Professor of Spanish at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. He is the author of The Self of the City: Macedonio Fernández, the Argentine Avant-Garde, and Modernity in Buenos Aires (2005), along with articles on Borges, Horacio Quiroga, and Machado de Assis. He is currently writing a study of seven interwar authors in the Río de la Plata region and their interrelated quests for pioneering, autochthonous ethical discourses. His ongoing research on Machado de Assis similarly examines that author’s efforts toward a transformation in Brazilian ethical thought.

Edouard Glissanthas been a Visiting Professor of French Literature at the City University of New York (CUNY) since 1995. His publications include Le discours antillais (1981); The Ripening (1985); Mahagony: Roman (1987); Faulkner, Mississippi (1999); and Une Nouvelle région du monde (2006).

Leila Gómezin an Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies and Director of the Latin American Studies Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests include Latin American and Indigenous literature, film, and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis on the Andes, Mexico, Paraguay, and Argentina. Among her books are Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), Teaching Gender through Latin American, Spanish and Latino Literature and Culture (coeditor, Sense Publishers, 2015), Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts 1845–1909 (editor, Bucknell University Press, 2011), and Iluminados y tránsfugas: Relatos de viajeros y ficciones nacionales en Argentina, Paraguay y Perú (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2009). For her book project Impossible Domesticity , Leila Gómez was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for Advanced Researchers 2014–2015. As director of the Latin American Studies Center, Gómez is the Principal Investigator in the US Department of Education Grant (IFLE) to develop and implement the Quechua Language Program at CU-Boulder, since 2020.

Stephen M. Hart(PhD, Cambridge, UK, 1985) is Professor of Latin American Film and Latin American literature at University College London. He is Director of the Centre of César Vallejo Studies at UCL. He has published a number of books, including A Companion to Spanish American Literature (1999) and A Companion to Latin American Film (2004). He holds an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional Mayor of San Marcos in Lima and the Orden al Mérito from the Peruvian Government for his research on César Vallejo.

Hermann Herlinghausis Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His Violence Without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Globalized South will be published in 2008. Among his recent publications are Renarración y descentramiento: Mapas alternativos de la modernidad en América Latina (2004); Narraciones anacrónicas de la modernidad: melodrama e intermedialidad en América Latina (2002); and Modernidad heterogénea: Descentramientos hermenéuticos desde la comunicación en América Latina (2000). He has edited a variety of volumes on the history of concepts, and on contemporary literary and cultural debates.

Adriana Michèle Campos Johnsonis an Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at UC-Irvine. She is currently fi nishing a manuscript on the subalternization of Canudos. Her recent publications include “Everydayness and Subalternity,” South Atlantic Quarterly , 106:1 (2006); “Two Proposals for an Aesthetic Intervention in Politics: A Review of Nelly Richard, Masculine/Feminine and The Insubordination of Signs and Doris Sommer, Bilingual Aesthetics,” New Centennial Review , 5:3 (2005); and a translati on of Ticio Escobar, The Curse of Nemur: On the Art, Myth and Rituals of the Ishir Peoples of the Paraguayan Great Chaco (2007).

Hendrik Kraayis professor of history at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Bahia’s Independence: Popular Politics and Patriotic Festival in Salvador, Brazil, 1824–1900 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019), Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823–1889 (Stanford University Press, 2013), and Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s–1840s (Stanford University Press, 2001). He is also the editor or coeditor of five books, including Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s–1990s (M.E. Sharpe, 1997), and has published numerous articles on Brazilian history.

Horacio Legrasteaches Latin American literature and culture at the University of California-Irvine. He has published articles on the Mexican Revolution, Andean literature, and nineteenth-century Argentine culture. His forthcoming book, Literature and Subjection , explores the historical role of the literary form in the incorporation of marginal subjectivities to representation in Latin America.