Carlos Abreu Mendoza is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at Texas State University. His current research focuses on the thematization of sound in nation-building narratives, the affective and emotional economies at play in nineteenth-century racialization processes, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. With anthropologist Denise Y. Arnold, he co-edited the volume\u00a0Cr\u00edtica de la raz\u00f3n andina<\/em>\u00a0(Editorial A Contracorriente \/ UNC Press, 2018). His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as MLN, A Contracorriente, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos, Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, Chasqui,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Latin American Literary Review. <\/em>He is working on a book project that\u00a0rethinks how aurality gave shape to key debates concerning humanity, rationality, technology, and culture that define the period of national consolidation in Latin America. A chapter from this project, titled\u00a0\u201cTuning the Indian: Creole Discourse, Citizenship, and\u00a0Aurality\u00a0in (Post)colonial Latin America,\u201d is forthcoming in\u00a0The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America<\/em>.<\/p>\n Anke Birkenmaier is Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has published widely on Cuban literature, sound studies, the international avant-garde, and on the intellectual history of Latin America. Her first award-winning book, Alejo Carpentier y la cultura del surrealismo en Am\u00e9rica Latina<\/em> (Vervuert-Iberoamericana, 2006) explores Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier\u2019s decade long collaboration with French dissident surrealists and radio pioneers. Her book, The Specters of Race. Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars<\/em> (University of Virginia Press, 2016) is a study of the interconnected scientific and literary networks preoccupied with the relation between race and culture in the time between the two world wars, leading to the rise of Latin American studies after 1945. Birkenmaier has also co-edited Havana beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings after 1989<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2011) and Caribbean Migrations. The Legacies of Colonialism<\/em> (Rutgers University Press, 2020).<\/p>\n Daniel Hern\u00e1ndez is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Wesleyan University. Born in Colombia, he received a BA in Literary Studies at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota\u0301 and he completed his PhD in Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University in 2022. His current research focuses on how ethnographic practice and the use of new recording technology in the Caribbean and the Amazon rainforest transformed literature in these regions over the course of the early twentieth century. His broader interests include media theory, new materialisms, race and ethnic studies, and the relationship between anthropology and literature at large.<\/p>\n Joseph Wager is a PhD Candidate in Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. He holds an MA in Literary Studies from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a BA in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. He has presented at conferences and published in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. He currently coordinates two Working Groups\u2014Caribbean Studies Reading Group; Law and Literature in the Global South. He has taught several courses at the Universidad Nacional and Stanford.<\/p>\n Pamela Zamora Quesada es estudiante de doctorado en Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos en University of British Columbia. All\u00ed ha trabajado como asistente de investigaci\u00f3n en proyectos relacionados al sonido en literatura latinoamericana y as\u00ed como sobre la novela corta de mujeres. Su investigaci\u00f3n versa sobre la auralidad literaria y las representaciones de g\u00e9nero en la literatura mexicana y centroamericana contempor\u00e1nea. Hizo su pregrado en Filolog\u00eda Espa\u00f1ola en la Universidad de Costa Rica y en el 2019 complet\u00f3 su maestr\u00eda en literatura en West Virginia University. Escribi\u00f3 su tesis sobre la \u00f3pera costarricense La Ruta de su Evasi\u00f3n <\/em>(2017) y los ritmos latinoamericanos como estrategias de resistencia patriarcal. Actualmente est\u00e1 preparando un art\u00edculo sobre su tesis.<\/p>\n Luis Cal\u00ed es un artista kaqchikel multifac\u00e9tico originario de San Juan Comalapa, Chimaltenango, Guatemala que desde temprana edad mostr\u00f3 sus habilidades art\u00edsticas. Las artes que ha explorado han sido la pintura al \u00f3leo, la actuaci\u00f3n teatral, la danza, la poes\u00eda y la m\u00fasica.<\/p>\n Actualmente dirige M\u00fasica Maya Aj uno de los grupos de m\u00fasica de especial aceptaci\u00f3n en el\u00a0 \u00e1mbito nacional e internacional por su estilo y\u00a0 g\u00e9nero musical. Luis ha musicalizado diferentes cortometrajes y documentales entre ellos, Abrazos <\/em>de Luis Argueta, El vuelo del azacu\u00e1n<\/em> de Rafael Gonz\u00e1lez, Resonancia<\/em> de Cinetenango Films y El camino es largo<\/em> de Edgar Sajcab\u00fan, entre otros. Desde el a\u00f1o 2,000 ha participado en eventos a nivel internacional en Puerto Rico, Alemania, Par\u00eds, Houston, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Los \u00c1ngeles, Las Vegas, Austria, M\u00e9xico y Costa Rica. Ha intercambiado y fusionado el arte maya con artistas de otros g\u00e9neros musicales, como Camera Orchestra de Leipzig Alemania, Orchestra Bach Ensemble y con Mark Anthony y Jennifer L\u00f3pez en \u201cQ’Viva! The Chosen En Vivo\u201d. Tambi\u00e9n se dedica a la elaboraci\u00f3n de instrumentos sonoros en madera, bamb\u00fa y cer\u00e1mica, entre otros.<\/p>\n Rita M. Palacios es doctora en literatura latinoamericana por la Universidad de Toronto y es profesora en la Escuela de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Conestoga College en Kitchener, Ontario, Canad\u00e1. Se especializa en literatura Maya contempor\u00e1nea escrita en Guatemala y M\u00e9xico vista desde una lente descolonial y con un enfoque de g\u00e9nero. Ha escrito art\u00edculos sobre literatura, arte y performance ind\u00edgena y en 2019 public\u00f3 el libro Unwriting Maya Literature:\u00a0 Ts\u2019\u00edib as Recorded Knowledge<\/em> con Paul M. Worley de la Universidad de Western Carolina.<\/p>\n Paul M. Worley es profesor de literatura global en Western Carolina University. Escrito con Rita M. Palacios, su libro Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts\u2019\u00edib as Recorded Knowledge<\/em> (Des-escribir la literatura maya: una propuesta desde el ts\u2019\u00edib; 2019) recibi\u00f3 una menci\u00f3n honor\u00edfica en el Premio LASA-M\u00e9xico 2020 para el mejor libro en Humanidades. Es autor de Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures<\/em> (Contar y ser contado: Los cuentacuentos y el control cultural en la literatura maya yucateca; 2013; performances de este proyecto se encuentran en tsikbalichmaya.org), becario Fulbright, y en 2018 gan\u00f3 el Premio Sturgis Leavitt del Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies. Aparte de su trabajo acad\u00e9mico, ha traducido las obras de los escritores ind\u00edgenas Hubert Malina, Adriana L\u00f3pez, Manuel Tzoc, y Ruperta Bautista, entre otros.<\/p>\n Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of three books:\u00a0Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading<\/em> (Fordham UP, 2020), Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic <\/em>(Northwestern UP, 2014), and\u00a0The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary<\/em> (Duke UP, 2008). Graff Zivin is the editor of two dossiers, \u201cIn Honor of Peggy Kamuf\u201d (Discourse<\/em>, 2019) and \u201cWomen in Theory\u201d (diacritics<\/em>, 2022), as well as the books The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism<\/em> (Fordham University Press, 2017) and The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), and co-editor (with Jacques Lezra, Alberto Moreiras, and Jos\u00e9 Luis Villaca\u00f1as) of Terror: La perspectiva hispana<\/em>, which was recently published by Guillermo Escolar in Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n Victor Sierra Matute is Assistant Professor of Spanish Cultural Studies\u00a0at Baruch College\u00a0(CUNY).\u00a0His research focuses on the intersection of materiality, affect,\u00a0and history of the senses in the early modern Iberian world. He is the editor of Soundscapes of the Early Modern Iberian Empires<\/em> (under contract with Routledge). His work on soundscapes\u00a0and aurality has appeared in the edited volume Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production<\/em> and is forthcoming in\u00a0the Journal of Romance Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n Amanda M. Smith’s research explores relationships among space, ecology, decoloniality, and\u00a0development\u00a0in Latin American and Latinx cultures. Her book,\u00a0Mapping <\/a>the Amazon: Literary Geography after the Rubber Boom<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Liverpool University Press, 2021), examines\u00a0how stories told about the Amazon in canonical twentieth-century novels have shaped the way people across the globe understand and use the region. Her next book project examines contemporary Latin American comics at the intersection of environmental crisis and feminist and queer politics. Smith is co-founder of the Latin American Sound Studies Working Group with\u00a0Tamara Mitchell. Her\u00a0work has appeared in\u00a0The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies; ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America; A contracorriente; Chiric\u00fa Journal: Latina\/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures; and Ciberletras<\/em>. She also co-edited the provocative graphic novel, United States of Banana.<\/em><\/p>\n Tamara L. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research examines the relationship among aesthetics, politics, and the literary tradition, with a focus on contemporary Mexican and Central American narrative fiction. Her peer-reviewed work has been published in Modern Language Notes<\/em>, Revista de Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos<\/em>, Chasqui<\/em>, and CR: New Centennial Review<\/em>, among other venues. Mitchell\u2019s first book, Novel Crises: Neoliberalism, Post-Nationalism, and Mexican and Central American Literature<\/em>, considers contemporary narrative fiction that represents and responds to the myriad crises that arise due to burgeoning neoliberal globalization. Her second book project,\u00a0supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, is titled\u00a0Sounds of the Capitalocene: Violence and Aurality in Latin American Narrative Fiction <\/em>and\u00a0considers how 20th- and 21st-century authors turn to aurality in narrative fiction as a means of critiquing and responding to exclusionary politics, economic inequalities, gendered violence, and ecological devastation of the neoliberal present.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Conference Presenters Carlos Abreu Mendoza Associate Professor, Texas State University Carlos Abreu Mendoza is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at Texas State University. His current research focuses on the thematization of sound in nation-building narratives, the affective and emotional economies at play in nineteenth-century racialization processes, and the relationship between aesthetics and … <\/p>\nAnke Birkenmaier
\nProfessor, Indiana University<\/h4>\nAzucena Hern\u00e1ndez
\nAssistant Professor, University of Arizona<\/h4>\nDaniel Hern\u00e1ndez
\nVisiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University<\/h4>\nJoseph Wager
\nPhD Candidate, Stanford University<\/h4>\nPamela Zamora Quesada
\nPhD Student, University of British Columbia<\/h4>\nVirtual Workshop Participants<\/h2>\n
Lu\u00eds Cal\u00ed, performance artist, M\u00fasica Maya Aj, Guatemala<\/h4>\n
Rita Palacios, Professor, Conestoga College Ontario<\/h4>\n
Paul Worley, Associate Professor,\u00a0Western Carolina University<\/h4>\n
Ana Cecilia Calle, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University<\/h4>\n
Erin Graff Zivin, Professor, University of Southern California<\/h4>\n
Victor Sierra Matute, Assistant Professor, Baruch College, CUNY<\/h4>\n
Co-Organizers & Chairs<\/h2>\n
Amanda M. Smith, Associate Professor, University of California Santa Cruz<\/h4>\n
Tamara L. Mitchell, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia<\/h4>\n