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Verónica Garibotto

Verónica Garibotto

John D. Stephens Distinguished Professor in Latin American Studies
Spanish
Dey 226

Accepting graduate students 

Education

PhD, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, 2008

MA, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, 2004

Licenciatura en Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2002

About Professor Garibotto

Verónica Garibotto’s work focuses on nineteenth- to twenty-first century Latin American literary, filmic, and cultural studies. Her first book, Crisis y reemergencia (Purdue UP, 2015), explores the crisis of nineteenth-century foundational ideologies and its manifestation in the contemporary literatures of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Her second book, Rethinking Testimonial Cinema (Indiana UP, 2019), analyzes how first-person films have turned the Argentine dictatorship into an iconic event and develops a framework for reading the cinematic representation of political conflicts over time. An award from the Ministerio de la Cultura de la Nación Argentina funded the publication of a version in Spanish: Semiótica y afecto: el cine testimonial en la posdictadura (Imago Mundi, 2021). She is finalizing a new book, The Public Couch: Psychoanalysis and Intersectionality in Argentina, that examines the Argentine psychoanalytic culture’s paradoxical effects on public life. The chapters explore the role of psychoanalysis in gentrification, the links between psychoanalysis and the creation of LGBTQIA+ categories of identity, and psychoanalytic discourses of reproductive rights. Her next book project centers on the tensions between reproductive rights and reproductive justice in the Americas (Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, and the United States).

Verónica has co-edited two books: The Latin American Road Movie (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, with Jorge Pérez) and Psychoanalysis as Social and Political Discourse in Latin America and the Caribbean (Routledge, 2022, with Paola Bohórquez). She also serves on the editorial boards of PMLA and Toma Uno: Revista de Cine. Graduate students working with her have written dissertations on topics such as representations of Nazism in Mexican and Argentine literature; mobility and memory in Andean Indigenous films; displacement and intersectionality in Colombian, Ecuadoran, and Venezuelan travel narratives; Afro-Mexican cultural production; Central American science fiction; representations of Argentine and Brazilian soccer; and Argentine, Greek, and South Korean cinemas.

Publications, Articles, & Presentations

Single-Authored Books

Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Postdictatorship Argentina: Beyond Memory Fatigue. Indiana University Press, 2019. Version in Spanish: Semiótica y afecto: el cine testimonial en la posdictadura. Imago Mundi, 2021

Crisis y reemergencia: el siglo XIX en la ficción contemporánea de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (1980-2001). Purdue University Press, 2015.

Edited Books

Psychoanalysis as Social and Political Discourse in Latin America and the Caribbean (with Paola Bohórquez). Routledge, 2022.

The Latin American Road Movie (with Jorge Pérez). Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Most Recent Articles

“A veinte años de Los rubios/The Blondes (Carri, 2003): una examinación
retrospectiva de las teorías del trauma y la memoria.” Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. Special Dossier: Los rubios. Veinte años. Ed. Antonio Gómez. (in press), 2023.

“The Desiring Woman: Psychoanalytic Discourses of Abortion in Argentine Feminism.” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 28.3: 393–410, 2023.

“Desire Moves Us: Psychoanalysis and Reproductive Rights in Argentina.” Counterspace. Special Number: Women’s Bodies, Reproductive Rights, and Self-Determination. Eds. Angie Voela and Lara Sheehi: 308-314

“Uneven Reproductive Landscapes: The Abortion Documentary in Latin America.” Latin American Research Review: 1-9, 2022.

“Paradoxical Ideologies: An Intersectional View of Argentine Psychoanalytic Discourses on Gender and Sexuality (2005-2012).” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 30.4: 1-15, 2022.

“Filiaciones y desvíos: de la literatura a los estudios culturales y de los estudios culturales a la literatura.” Filiaciones y desvíos: lecturas y reescrituras en la literatura latinoamericana. Ed. Andrea Cobas Carral. Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana. 243-249, 2021.

Awards & Honors

Jessie Marie Senor Cramer & Ann Cramer Annual Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Kansas (2020, 2013)

Jessie Marie Senor Cramer & Ann Cramer Root Professorship for Excellence in Research and Teaching. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Kansas (2015-2018)

Junior Faculty Teaching Award. Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs. (2014)

Vice Chancellor for Research Book Publication Award. Hall Center for the Humanities. University of Kansas. (2013)

Dissertations

At the University of Kansas,

1. Seungjoo Lee. “Peripheral Subempires: Argentine, Greek, and South Korean Cinemas of the Crisis.” Defended: July 2024. First job placement: Visiting assistant professor of Spanish, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Wichita State University.

2. Zachary Glassett. “Post-Neoliberal Fiction in Mexico and Central America.” Defended: July 2024. First job placement: Visiting assistant professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, Kansas State University.

3. Andrés Rabinovich. “Neoliberal Tensions in the Representation of Argentine and Brazilian Soccer.” Defended: July 2023.First job placement: Assistant instructional professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages, University of Chicago.

4. Ariadna Tenorio. “Over our Black Bodies: Afro-Mexican Cultural Production.”Defended: April 2023. First job placement: Assistant professor of Afro-Latinx Cultures, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida.

5. Juan Pablo Román-Alvarado. “Intersectional Spatial Displacements in Latin American Travel Narratives: Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.” Defended: August 2022. First job placement: Assistant professor of Spanish, Department of English, Journalism, and Literatures, Emporia State University.

6. Lina Muñoz-Márquez. “Identity and Memory in Andean Indigenous Films.” Defended: May 2021. First job placement: Assistant professor of Spanish, Department of Humanities, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

7. Javier Barroso. “Representations of Nazism in Mexico and Argentina.” Defended: July 2017. First job placement: Continuing Lecturer in Spanish, Department of Global Languages, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.