Lina Meruane
Lina Meruane is a writer and a Ph.D. in Literature. Her fiction work includes two collections of short stories (Las Infantas and Avidez) and five novels (Póstuma, Cercada, Fruta podrida, Sangre en el ojo, and Sistema nervioso), which have been translated into twelve languages. She is also the author of two essays on the body (Viajes virales and Zona ciega), two feminist essays (Contra los hijos and Coloquio de las quiltras), the personal essay Palestina en pedazos (an expanded version of her previous Volverse Palestina), and the lyrical essay Palestina por ejemplo. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the José Donoso Ibero-American Letters Prize (Chile, 2023), the Blue Metropolis Literary Prize (Canada, 2023), the Cálamo Prize (Spain, 2016), the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (Mexico, 2012), and the Anna Seghers Prize (Germany, 2011). She has also received writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (USA, 2004), the NEA (USA, 2010), and the DAAD (Germany, 2017), among others. She teaches creative writing in Spanish at New York University (USA).
Photo by: Lina Botero/Filbo2024
Jens Andermann
Jens Andermann is David B. Kriser Professor in the Humanities at New York University. He is the editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and the book series SubAtlantic: Latin American, Caribbean, and Luso-African Ecologies (De Gruyter). His research focuses on art, literature, and cinema, particularly their intersections with extractivism, memory, and survival in the South Atlantic. His most recent publications include Jardín (Bifurcaciones, 2023), Entranced Earth: Art, Extractivism, and the End of Landscape (Northwestern, 2023; Spanish: Metales Pesados, 2018), New Argentine Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2011; Paidós, 2015), The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil (Pittsburgh, 2007; EDUERJ, 2014), and as co-editor, Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics (De Gruyter, 2023), Natura: Environmental Aesthetics After Landscape (Diaphanes, 2018), and Latin American Cultural Studies: A Reader (Routledge, 2018). Andermann has taught at multiple universities, including those in London, Zurich, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Duke, Princeton, and Columbia.
Special Guests
Deviant Cosmopolitanisms and Queer Exceptions: Carl Fischer and Germán Garrido Present Their Books
For this edition of the conference, we will feature the presentation of two books: Locas excepciones. La vía chilena a la disidencia sexual (2024, Ediciones Alberto Hurtado) by Carl Fischer and La internacional del Pecado: Desvíos cosmopolitas en Copi (2024, Chasco Libros). The presentation will take the form of a parallel dialogue, weaving together the common threads between these publications, such as the politics of sexual dissidence, queer cultural and literary networks in Latin America, the formation of cosmopolitan archives and their deviations, among other topics.
Organizer: Ignacio Pastén López
Carl Fischer
Carl Fischer is a professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fordham University. His research explores the intersections of visual studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is the author of Queering the Chilean Way: Cultures of Exceptionalism and Sexual Dissidence, 1965-2015 (translated as Locas excepciones: La vía chilena a la disidencia sexual, 2024). He is also the co-editor (with Vania Barraza) of the volume Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World (2020), and (with María Angélica Franken) of the dossier “Representations of the Colonia Dignidad Case in Recent Chilean Cultural Production” in the journal Anales de Literatura Chilena (2023). His work has been published in journals such as American Quarterly, Confluenze, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Hispanic Review, and Comunicación y medios. He is currently working on a new monograph tentatively titled Cosmic Racisms: Fascism, Geopolitics, and Aesthetics in Latin America’s Southern Cone.
Germán Garrido
Germán Garrido is a researcher and associate professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY). His areas of interest include Southern Cone literature, queer theory, and the history of LGBTTIQ+ activism in Latin America. He has published articles in journals and volumes such as Chuy: Revista de estudios literarios latinoamericanos, The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian Gay Studies, Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana, among others. His recent book, La Internacional del Pecado: Desvíos de lo cosmopolita en Copi, Néstor Perlongher y María Moreno, explores the aesthetic-political potentials of transnational queer communities in the heterogeneous work of these writers, relating it to different forms of LGBTT and feminist activism during the 1970s and 1980s.
