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  Esther L Gabara, Affiliated Faculty
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  Assistant Professor; Spanish

Office Location:  315 Languages Bldg.
Office Phone:  919-660-3112, 919-660-3100
Email Address:  send me a message

Office Hours:

Tuesday: 2:00pm - 4:30pm
By appointment
Education:

  • PhD in Comparative Literature Stanford 2001
  • MA in Comparative Literature Stanford 1997
  • BA in Comparative Literature University of Pennsylvania 1993

Specialties:

20th Century Latin American Visual Culture and Literature
Spanish
Research Interests:

20th Century Mexico,Brazil, the Spanish Caribbean, relationship between literature and the visual arts, photography

Representative Publications   (More Publications)
  1. Esther Gabara. Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil.  Duke University Press, Summer, Summer, 2008.
  2. "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.
  3. "La ciudad loca: An Epistemological Plan." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 9:2 (2000): 119-35.
  4. "Engendering Nation: Las bellas artes públicas and the Mexican Photo-essay, 1920-1940." Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 49 (Fall, 2001): 139-154.
  5. "'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  (2004): 169-190.