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Assistant Professor; Spanish
| Office Location: | 315 Languages Building | | Office Phone: | 919-660-3112, 919-660-3100 | | Email Address: |  
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- 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:
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20th Century Latin American Visual Culture and Literature
Spanish
Theory & Criticism
- Research Interests:
20th Century Mexico,Brazil, the Spanish
Caribbean,
relationship between literature and the visual
arts, photography
Representative Publications (More Publications)
- Esther Gabara. Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil. A John Hope Franklin Center Book Duke University Press,
November, 2008.
- "“Fighting It Out: Being Naco in the Global Lucha Libre”." Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts. Mexico Issue26 (Spring,
Spring, 2009).
- "“I Swear She Is a Woman: Balmoreadas and Ethics in Drag.”." TDR: The Drama Review (2009).
- "Recycled Photographs: Moving Still Images of Mexico City, 1950/2000." Double Exposure: Photography and Literature in Latin America (2006): 139-172.
- "Modernist Ethics: Really Engaging Popular Culture in Mexico and Brazil." The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise (2007): 63-104.
- "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.
- ""Cannon and Camera": Photography and Colonialism in the Américas." ELN 44:2 (Winter,
Fall/Winter, 2006): 45-64.
- "“Perspectives on Scale: From the Atomic to the Universal”." Globalization and Art (Accepted, 2009).
- "'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.
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