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| Esther Gabara, Associate Professor; Spanish
| Office Location: | 212 Languages Building | | Office Phone: | 919-660-3111, 919-660-3100 | | Email Address: |  
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Teaching (Fall 2012):
- Spanish 335.01, Intro spanish-amer lit
Synopsis
- Languages 305, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- Romst 590s.03, Sem romance studies(top)
Synopsis
- Tba, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
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
Latin-American Studies
Caribbean Studies
Comparative Studies: Translation, Travel Narratives, Trans-Culturality
Modernity and Modernism
Globalization, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity
Film, Media and Visual Studies
- Research Interests:
Modern and Contemporary Latin America
relationship between literature and visual
culture, 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. [ref=sr_1_1]
- "Fighting It Out: Being Naco in the Global Lucha Libre." Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts. Mexico Issue26 (2010): 277-300. [html]
- "Perspectives on Scale: From the Atomic to the Universal." Art and Globalization (2010): 200-204. [html]
- ""Cannon and Camera": Photography and Colonialism in the Américas." ELN 44:2 (Winter,
Fall/Winter, 2006): 45-64. [pdfviewer]
- "Modernist Ethics: Really Engaging Popular Culture in Mexico and Brazil." The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise (2007): 63-104. [ref=sr_1_1]
- "Recycled Photographs: Moving Still Images of Mexico City, 1950/2000." Double Exposure: Photography and Literature in Latin America (2006): 139-172. [ref=sr_1_1]
- "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. [html]
- "La ciudad loca: An Epistemological Plan." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 9:2 (2000): 119-35.
- Leonard Folgarait, "Seeing Mexico Photographed: The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti, and Álvarez Bravo". Caa.reviews (online), College Arts Association (Winter, Winter, 2010).
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