| Esther Gabara received her PhD from Stanford University in 2001. Her main area of specialization is the relationship between literature and the visual arts in twentieth century Mexico, Brazil, and the Spanish Caribbean; other interests include gender theory and cultural studies. She teaches courses on visual culture in twentieth-century Latin America, the role of the artist/intellectual in Mexico, Mexicana Feminism, and the Latin American avant-gardes. Her manuscript entitled, "The Ethos of Modernism: Photographic Aesthetics in Mexico and Brazil" is forthcoming from Duke University Press, and she is working on a new book project entitled "Non-Literary Fictions: Inventions and Interventions in Contemporary Latin American Art." Education:
- PhD in Comparative Literature Stanford, 2001
- MA in Comparative Literature Stanford, 1997
- BA in Comparative Literature University of Pennsylvania, 1993
Research Interests:
My research examines the relationship between literature and visual culture in 20th and 21st century Latin America. I have examined the role of photography in the modernist avant-garde, as well as its function in the Americas at the end of the 19th century, and am currently working on a theory of fiction in a spectrum of contemporary visual practices. Broadly speaking, my work in visual and cultural studies investigates ethics, aesthetics, and politics; gender and sexuality; and the history of race. Representative Publications (More Publications)
- Esther Gabara. Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil. Duke University Press, Summer, 2008.
- "Facing Brazil: The Problem of Portraiture and a Modernist Sublime." Special issue entitled “Phosphorescent Memory: Visual
Culture in the Americas”
CR: The New Centennial Review 4:2 (2004): 33-76.
- "La ciudad loca: An Epistemological Plan." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 9:2 (2000): 119-35.
- "Engendering Nation: Las bellas artes públicas and the Mexican Photo-essay, 1920-1940." Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 49 (Fall, 2001): 139-154.
- "'Nunca olhei tão olhado em minha vida e está sublime’: O (auto)retrato e a fotografia na obra de Mário de Andrade." A Historiografia Literária e as Técnicas de Escrita. Do Manuscrito ao Hipertexto Ed. Flora Süssekind and Tânia Dias. Vieira e Lent/ Edições Casa de Rui Barbosa, 2004, 169-190.
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