Karina Vazquez Lecture

Karina E. Vázquez has a BA in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and a PhD in Latin American Literature from University of Florida (2008), and is currently an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Alabama. She specializes in 20/21^st Centuries Latin American Literature, particularly Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Chile). She published Fogwill: Realismo y mala conciencia (Buenos Aires, Circeto/Edhasa 2009), and Aprendices, fabriqueras y obreros. El trabajo industrial en la narrative argentina del siglo XX (1930-2007) (Buenos Aires, Editorial Biblos 2013), and has articles on Latin American poetry, narrative, film and theater in journals of Argentina, México, England, and United States (Luso Brazilian Review, Explicación de textos literarios, A Contracorriente, El Interpretador, Revista Iberoamericana, Signos Literarios, Chasqui). Her main research topics have been realism in recent Latin American narrative, Bildungsroman, the representation of labor and masculinities in XX century Argentine narrative, and her current works are the iconographies of the political activist in Latin America during sixties and seventies, the uses of photomontage and collage in recent narrative dealing with dictatorial past, and the representations of domestic labor in Chile and Argentina.

Some of her recent publications are “La poética del enrarecimiento en La mujer sin cabeza (2009), de Lucrecia Martel.” Journal of Hispanic Research – Special Issue on Film Studies Scholarship Vol. 16, N 1 (February 2015), 31-48.

“La (in)gravidez de las palabras: experiencia y lenguaje en Flores de un solo día (2002), de Anna-Kazumi Stahl.” Submitted to L’Érudit franco-espagnol Vol. 6 (Fall 2014), 95-112.

“Corre, Muchacha, Corre: Estructura de clases y trabajo doméstico en La nana (2009), de Sebastián Silva.” Chasqui Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana Vol. 432 (November 2014), 161-178.

“El papel del teatro en la re-articulación de la experiencia cívica: la mirada crítica de “Argos Teatro” en la puesta en escena de Aire frío, de Virgilio Piñera.” Argus-a. Artes / Humanidades Vol. IV, Ed. 15 (January 2015).

“Neviditelné násilí. Politické násilí v hispanoamerické literatuř” / “Violencia invisible: ambigüedad estructural en La mujer en cuestión, de María Teresa Andruetto y El sueño del retorno, de Horacio Castellanos Moya.” Co-authored with Claudia García (University of Nebraska – Omaha). Host 8 Journal on Literature (October 2014).​

Her lecture “Cuanto más miro, más veo: la dialéctica de la imagen y la palabra en trabajos sobre el pasado dictatorial en Argentina” will be on March 4th at 4:00pm in Haldeman 41.