Fear and Horror Series in the Romance World

Please join us for the last event in the “Fear and Horror Series in the Romance World,” which will be held on the afternoon of this Thursday, October 27, from 4:30-5:30pm EST. “Brazilian Horror: Zombies, Contagion, and Decay” is a hybrid event that will be conducted both online via Zoom and in-person in Toy Lounge in Dey Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We will have two 20-minute presentations, followed by an open, informal Q&A and discussion. Please see the attached flyer, and feel free to share widely!

Brazilian Horror: Zombies, Contagion, and Decay

In-person & virtual event

Room: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill

Zoom ID: 995 5533 5984

Passcode: 590288

Presentations:

Kissing Zombies: Happiness, Queer Futurity, and Planetary Ecocide, Jeremy Lehnen (Brown University)

E os mortos voltarão: A Genealogy of Zombies in Brazilian Literature, Chloe Hill (UNC – Chapel Hill)

Presenter bios:

Jeremy Lehnen is the Associate Director of the Center for Language Studies at Brown University. There, he also serves as the director of the Brazil Initiative at the Watson Institute and is a Senior Lecturer of Language Studies.  He has also served as the interim director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies program, and the interim associate director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. He is also the executive editor of the Journal of Lusphone Studies. He received his PhD from the University of New Mexico in Latin American studies and has taught at the University of New Mexico, Macalester College, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. His work has been published in Luso-Brazilian Review, Journal of Lusophone Studies, and Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, among other journals. His primary research interests broach questions of gender and sexuality, particularly masculinities, in contemporary Latin American cinema, literature, and electronic cultural production.

Chloe Hill is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Portuguese at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a doctoral degree from Brown University in Portuguese & Brazilian Studies. Her research examines the relationship between globalization and literary production through the Brazilian novel of the twenty-first century. Her current work explores how contemporary apocalyptic narratives inform global configurations of power, knowledge, and migratory experiences, drawing from areas of study such world literature, translation theory, and ecocriticism. Her published works have appeared in Brasil/Brazil, Revista Diadorim, and Romance Notes. Most recently, she has co-edited a special issue of The Journal of Lusophone Studies on apocalyptic imaginaries in Portuguese.

Series information:

“Fear and Horror Series in the Romance World” is a program organized by Sandra García, Chloe M. Hill, Marco Malvestio and Sean Singh Matharoo, that explores narratives of fear and horror in the Romance World, encompassing the Romance languages, literatures, and cultures within the transnational andregional contexts in which they have developed. Such narratives engage with social anxieties and fears, interrogating contemporary individuals’ relationships to social justice and forging intersections with other disciplines. Through this series, we will consider how fear and horror narratives of the Romance World circulate in diverse linguistic spaces, how they relate to epistemologies of crisis, and how they might contribute to the ongoing project of constructing alternative futures.

We want to give special thanks to our sponsors, which include:

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:

The Department of Romance Studies

The Graduate Romance Association

Women’s & Gender Studies

The Institute for the Study of the Americas

The Center for European Studies

AND

The European Union

The European Research Council