Geographies of Risk
September 23-24, 2010
Iain Wilkinson (University of Kent)
Senior Lecturer, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, Director of the Centre for the Study of Philanthropy, Humanitarianism and Social Justice (CPHSJ). Prof. Wilkinson is an expert on the sociology of risk and social theory. He has published several books on risk and related issues, such as social suffering, the politics of compassion and the sociology of health. Selected publications include: Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life, London: Routledge (2009), Health, Risk and Vulnerability, London: Routledge (2008) Anxiety in a Risk Society, London: Routledge (2001) and 'The Psychology of Risk' in G. Mythen, and S. Walklate Beyond the Risk Society: Critical Reflections on Risk and Human Security, Open University press/Mcgraw Hill (2006).
Gabriela Nouzeilles (Princeton University)
Professor of Latin American Studies. She specializes in modern Latin American literature and culture, critical theory, media and modernity, and travel literature. She is author of Somatic Fictions: Naturalism, Nationalism, and Medical Politics of the Body (2000), and Of Other Places. Patagonia and the Production of Nature (Duke U. P., forthcoming). She is the editor of La naturaleza en disputa. Retóricas del cuerpo y el paisaje (2002), and co-editor of The Argentina Reader. History, Culture, and Politics (Duke 2003) and La memoria insastifecha (Santiago, Chile: ARCIS, forthcoming). She has published essays on fictions of disease, local articulations of hysteria, crime and aesthetics, racial bodies, alternative travel, “exceptional” landscapes and photography, and memory and cinema. She is currently working on a new book project on body writing in Latin American literature, art, and photography.
Ericka Beckman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture. Her book manuscript, entitled “Capital Fictions: Writing Latin America’s Export Age” (1870-1930), examines the ideologies and aesthetic forms that emerged during this region’s first major experiment with market liberalization. She is currently at work on two projects: a sequel to her first book, focusing on the cultural production of state-led development in mid-twentieth-century Latin America; and a study of “narco-narratives” in Mexico and Colombia since the 1970s.
Magali Carrera (University of Massachusetts, Darmouth)
Chancellor Professor of Art History. Her research has been published in various academic journals. Her recent book Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings (University of Texas Press, 2003) received the 2004 College Art Association/Association for Latin American Art Book Award. Dr. Carrera’s current research project examines the history of cartography in nineteenth-century Mexico and its impact on nationalist art.
L. Elena Delgado (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Cultures at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), where she is also affiliated with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; Gender and Women’s Studies; the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies and the European Union Center. She is the author of La imagen elusiva. Lenguaje y representación en la narrativa de Galdós (Rodopi) and editor or co-editor of several monographic issues of specialized journals. Currently, she is finishing a book entitled “In a state of Normalcy: Trajectories of a Cultural imaginary in Modern and Contemporary Spain”. She is also working on a “Cultural History of Modern Literature in Spain” co-authored with Jo Labanyi (forthcoming from Polity). She is the editor of a book series on contemporary Hispanic Studies for Liverpool University Press, and a member of the editorial team of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. She also serves on the editorial board of various specialized journals.
Elaine Freedgood (New York University)
Professor of English. She is interested in Victorian literature and culture, critical theory, and the history of the novel. She is the author of The Ideas in Things: Realism, Fetishism, Fugitive Meaning (forthcoming) and Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World (Cambridge. 2000), and the editor of Factory Production in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003).
Dara E. Goldman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Associate Professor of Spanish, specializing in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American literatures and cultures, gender studies and cultural studies. She is the author of Out of Bounds: Islands and the Demarcation of Identity in the Hispanic Caribbean (Bucknell Univ. Press, 2008) and is currently completing a manuscript on Latina lesbian narratives. She has also published numerous articles on how Caribbean identities are represented in contemporary literature and film. Professor Goldman has served as director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and also holds appointments as Affiliate Faculty in several camps units, including the Center for Global Studies, Gender and Women¹s Studies, the Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Latina/Latino Studies and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory.
Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania)
Associate Professor of Romance Languages. She is the author of Optiques: the Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction (Penn, 2006) and has co-edited journal issues on “Visual Culture” (Contemporary French Civilization) and “Crime Fictions” (Yale French Studies). Her current book project explores scientific discourses of space (cartography, geology, geography) in modern French crime fiction from Gaboriau to Vargas.
Julián Gutiérrez Albilla (University of Southern California)
Assistant Professor in Spanish and Portuguese. He is an expert on Spanish and Latin American Film Studies and Visual Culture, Feminist and Queer Film Theory, and Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Queering Buñuel: Sexual Dissidence and Psychoanalysis in his Mexican and Spanish Cinema (IB Tauris, 2009), as well as over 10 articles and book chapters. He has recently published “Gender Politics and Ethics of Affection: The ‘Feminine’ Melodramatic Mode in Walter Salles’s Central do Brasil (1998)”, “Re-reading the ‘Tropical’ Other: A Latino Queer Appropriation of Carmen Miranda’s Latinidad’’, and “Returning to and from the Maternal Rural Space: Traumatic Memory, Late Modernity, and Nostalgic Utopia in Almodóvar’s Volver”.
Wail Hassan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Associate Professor of Comparative and World Literature. He is interested in Modern Arabic, Anglophone and Francophone literatures, literary and cultural theory, and gender, postcolonial, translation, and transnational studies. He is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction (Syracuse University Press, 2003), Anglophone Arabic Literature Between Cultural Translation and Transculturation (forthcoming), and is currently co-editing Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz (MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series).
Javier Irigoyen-García (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Assistant Professor of Early Modern Spanish Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the representation of race and ethnicity in early modern Spain. He is currently working on his book length project, “The Arcadia Hispanica: Pastoral Literature and the Exclusion of Moorish Spain,” which deals with pastoral as an oppositional trope whose classicism attempts to negate the Moorish legacy of Spain and to rewrite the history of the nation.
Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan)
Professor of French and Women's Studies. Her research focuses on romance narratives as well as on medieval theatre, poetry, chansons de geste, and medical and theological discourses. Her books The Romance of Adultery: Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature (1998) and The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature (2003) explore the intersections of medieval theories and practices of queenship with romances about adulterous queens, and the ways in which gendered cultural values are mapped onto representations of blood. She is currently working on two projects, a book on Marie de France, co-authored with Sharon Kinoshita, and a series of essays on animals, animality, and medieval French literary texts.
Maxine L. Margolis (University of Florida)
Professor of Anthropology and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses in Brazilian culture and society, international migration and gender roles cross-culturally. She is the author of Little Brazil: Brazilian Immigrants in New York City (Princeton University Press, 1994) and An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City (Allyn & Bacon 1998), as well as numerous articles. Her most recent book, True to Her Nature (Waveland 2000), analyzes the material causes for shifts –from Colonial days to the present–in American attitudes towards women's employment, housework and child care.
Mariselle Meléndez (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Associate Professor of Colonial Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on issues of race, gender and sexuality in colonial Spanish America with special interest in the eighteenth century, the cultural phenomenon of the Enlightenment, global coloniality, as well as visual studies. She is the author of Raza, género e hibridez en El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (1999) and co-editor of Mapping Colonial Spanish America: Places and Commonplaces of Identity, Culture, and Experience (2002). Her articles have appeared in journals such as: Colonial Latin American Review, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Latin American Literary Review, Hispanic Review, Revista Iberoamericana, Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana, Dieciocho Hispanic Enlightenment, and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, among others. Her book Deviant and Useful Citizens: The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru, is forthcoming with Vanderbilt University Press.
Jesse Ribot (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Director of Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy (SDEP) Initiative, Department of Geography, School of Earth Society and Environment, and Beckman Institute, UIUC. Professor Ribot conducts research on decentralization and democratic local government; natural resource tenure and access; distribution along natural resource commodity chains; and vulnerability in the face of climate and environmental change. He has published several articles on risk and climate in journals like Global Environmental Change and GeoJournal, and in article volumes such as The Distributional Effects of Climate Change: Social and Economic Implications (2009), The Earthscan Reader on Adaptation to Climate Change (2009), Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Equity and Vulnerability in a Warming World (2009), and Climate Change, Climate Variability and Social Vulnerability in the Semi-Arid Tropics (1996, 1995).
José María Rodríguez-García (Duke University)
Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. His main publication to date is The City of Translation: Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (New York: Palgrave USA, in press). He is currently at work on a book about the eclipse of agrarian communities and the de-nationalization of politics and vernacular cultures in modern Galicia. He has edited collections on such topics as “Literary into Cultural Translation” (spec. issue of Diacritics [2004]), “Political Paz” (spec. issue of Hispanófila [2010]), and transnational modernist poetics (spec. issue of Modernist Cultures [to be published in 2011]). He is also the author of some fifty-five full-length essays which are evenly divided among his principal areas of expertise: the cumulative history of Peninsular-Spanish poetry, Colombia’s political-intellectual history, Galician cultural studies, Octavio Paz, and Anglo-American modernist literature.
Emanuel Rota (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies. Emanuel Rota is an intellectual historian who specializes in modern political thought. He has published articles on women and migration, fascism, and on the Marxist heresies of the interwar period. He is finishing his book on Class and Nation in the 20s and 30s and is working on a second project on the Italian radical tradition, tentatively entitled Machiavelli's Children: Italian Radical Philosophers against the Nation State.
Robert Rushing (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Rob Rushing is associate professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he holds affiliate appointments with Cinema Studies and the European Union Center, and is the Nicholson Associate Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Rushing works predominantly on 20th and 21st century literature and popular culture in Italian, English, French and Spanish; his research interests include modern Italian literature; film studies; critical theory, especially psychoanalysis; comparative literary studies; and genre. He is the author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture (Other Press 2007), and his articles and reviews have appeared in Camera Obscura, Yale French Studies, Studies in European Cinema, Comparative Literature, MLN, American Literary History, and American Imago. He has just completed a book on contemporary Jane Austen fandom.
Kim Rygiel (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Assistant Professor of Political Science. She works on migration, gender and risk. Her current research includes migrant activism in response to the securitization of mobility and border controls and comparative policy, particularly within North America and Europe, around travel regulations, security technologies and asylum and detention policies. She is currently completing a book manuscript, Globalizing Citizenship: The Politics of Citizenship and Governing Global Mobility, under contract with UBC Press and is co-editor with Krista Hunt of (En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics (Ashgate, 2006).
Marcia Stephenson (Purdue University)
Associate Professor of Spanish and Women's Studies. Her fields of interest are: Women’s Studies, Latin American literature, and Andean cultural studies. Her book Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia (1999) received the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies’ A.B. Thomas Award for Excellence. She has published on the indigenous counterpublic sphere in Bolivia, as well as on the Andean movement for territory and self-determination. Her articles have appeared in some of the most prestigious journals such as Modern Language Notes, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Dispositio, among others. Currently, she is writing a book on the impact of the international trade in Andean camelids on European and indigenous epistemologies.
Eleonora Stoppino (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies. She specializes in literature and culture of the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, with a particular interest in the intersections of epic, gender, and genealogy. She has published articles on Ariosto, Tasso, the Italian epic tradition, and medieval conduct literature. She is currently working on a book length project on Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and on a series of articles on animals in Medieval Italian literature.
Antonio Luciano Tosta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Assistant Professor of Brazilian and Portuguese Studies. His several articles have appeared in journals and as book chapters in the US, Brazil, and Europe. He is the co-editor of the Luso-American Anthology: Writings by Portuguese-Speaking People in North America (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming), and he is currently finishing his manuscript Confluence Narratives in the Literatures of the Americas.
Michael Ugarte (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Middlebush Professor of Romance Languages, Michael Ugarte specializes in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Spanish Literature. He has published extensively in modern peninsular Spanish literature as well as cultural studies and postcolonial literature. His major publications include Madrid 1900: the Capital as Cradle of Culture (Penn State Press, 1996), Shifting Ground: Spanish Civil War Exile Literature (completed with a Guggenheim Fellowship, Duke Univ. Press 1989), and Trilogy of Treason: an Intertextual Study of Juan Goytisolo (Univ. of Missouri Press 1982). Professor Ugarte is the editor with Prof. Mbaré Ngom of a collection of essays on the culture of Equatorial Guinea published in Equatorial Guinea and Spanish Letters (2004), a special issue of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. His most recent book is Africans in Europe: The Culture of Exile and Emigration of Equatorial Guinea to Spain (Univ. of Illinois Press). Professor Ugarte has also translated the first novel of Equatorial Guinean writer Donato Ndongo, Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra: Shadows of Your Black Memory (Swan Isle Press).
Charles F. Walker (University of California - Davis)
Professor of History, Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas. He is the author of Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Recreation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840 (Duke University Press, 1999), Introduction to the Tupac Amary and Catarista Rebellions: An Anthology of Sources (Hackett, 2008), and Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath (Duke University Press, 2008). His articles have appeared in very prestigious journals and critical compilations. Among his interest are: Latin American social, cultural, and intellectual history; Peru and the Andes; the history of catastrophes and natural disasters (earthquakes); the Tupac Amaru Rebellion; and Truth Commissions.
Joseba Zulaika (University of Nevada - Reno)
Professor of Basque Studies. His research focuses on Basque culture and politics, discourses on terrorism, diasporic and global cultures, and history of anthropological thought. He has published several books, among them Terrorism: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and Basque Culture: Anthropological Perspectives (in collaboration with William A. Douglass, Center for Basque Studies, 2007).