Eugenio Di Stefano
- Professor
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Additional Information
Research Interests
Eugenio Di Stefano is an associate professor of Latin American Literature and Culture in the Department of World Languages and Literature and a member of OLLAS (Office of Latino/Latin American Studies) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
He has published articles on the politics of aesthetic form in contemporary Latin American cultural production in MLN, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Nonsite.
He is the author of the book, The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era (University of Texas Press). He is currently working on a book manuscript titled Dead Time: Capturing the Forms of the Latin American Present.
He is also a founding editor of Forma, an online journal dedicated to rethinking contemporary Latin American culture and theory.
- Aesthetic Theory
- Contemporary Latin American Literature and Film
- Latin American Social Movements
- Disability Studies
Education
Ph.D.: University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Hispanic Literature, 2003-2010
M.A.: University of Missouri at Kansas City, MO. Romance Languages, Italian and Spanish, 2000-2002
Recent Publications
Books
The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era. University of Texas Press. August, 2018.
Dead Time: Capturing the Forms of the Latin American Present. In progress.
Articles
“‘Give the People What They Want!’: Immediacy, Meaning, and Cinematic Form in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman” In progress.
“The Art of the Game: Carlos Reygadas’s Serenghetti.” Under Review in Praktyka Teoretyczna.
"Why You Might Want to Pay Attention to Autonomy: A Response to José Eduardo González." Nonsite.org. (Winter 2021) : n. pag. Web.
"Toward an Aesthetics of Dead Time in Carlos Reygadas’s Japón." Forma 1.1 (Fall 2019): n. pag. Web.
"The Logic of Torture in Post-Historical Times: A Response to Erin Graff Zivin’s Figurative Inquisitions." Deinós. 4 (Dec. 2018) : n. pag. Web.
"Forms of Freedom in Pablo Larraín’s No and Neruda." Open Library of the Humanities. Eds. Alexander Beaumont and Adam Kelly. October, 2018.
"Mexican Working-Class Literature or The Work of Literature in Mexico." Working-Class Literature(s). Eds. Magnus Nilsson and John Lennon. Stockholm University Press. December, 2017.
"'La furia de la material:' Freedom, Form, and the Contemporaneity of Modernism in Latin America." With Emilio Sauri. The Contemporaneity of Modernism. Eds. Michael D’Arcy and Mathias Nilges. Routledge. November, 2015.
"Disability and Latin American Cultural Studies: A Critique of Corporeal Difference, Identity and Social Exclusion." Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. 4.2 (2015) : n.pag. Web.
"Making it Visible: Latin Americanist Criticism, Literature and the Question of Exploitation Today." With Emilio Sauri. Nonsite.org. 13 (Fall 2014) : n. pag. Web.
"What Can a Painting Do?: Absorption and Autonomy in Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib as a Response to Affect and the Moral Utopia of Human Rights." Modern Language Notes. 129.2 (2014). 412-432.
"Reconsidering Aesthetic Autonomy and Interpretation as a Critique of the Latin American Left in Roberto Bolaño's Estrella distante." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 47.3 (Fall 2013) 463-85.
"Introduction to Transformation and Adaptation." With Lisa Connell Spec. Issue of Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts. 11 (2012) 1-4.
"From Shopping Malls to Memory Museums: Reconciling the Recent Past in the Uruguayan Neoliberal State." Reconciliation and its Discontents. Invited Contributor of Spec. Issue of Dissidences. 4.8 (2012) : n. pag. Web.
"From Revolution to Human Rights in Mario Benedetti’s Pedro y el Capitán." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. 20.2 (2011): 121-37.
"Remembering Pain in Uruguay: What Memories Mean in Carlos Liscano’s El furgón de los locos." Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature. Eds. Yenna Wu and Simone Weil Davis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, July 2011.
Additional Information
Research Interests
Eugenio Di Stefano is an associate professor of Latin American Literature and Culture in the Department of World Languages and Literature and a member of OLLAS (Office of Latino/Latin American Studies) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
He has published articles on the politics of aesthetic form in contemporary Latin American cultural production in MLN, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Nonsite.
He is the author of the book, The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era (University of Texas Press). He is currently working on a book manuscript titled Dead Time: Capturing the Forms of the Latin American Present.
He is also a founding editor of Forma, an online journal dedicated to rethinking contemporary Latin American culture and theory.
- Aesthetic Theory
- Contemporary Latin American Literature and Film
- Latin American Social Movements
- Disability Studies
Education
Ph.D.: University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Hispanic Literature, 2003-2010
M.A.: University of Missouri at Kansas City, MO. Romance Languages, Italian and Spanish, 2000-2002
Recent Publications
Books
The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era. University of Texas Press. August, 2018.
Dead Time: Capturing the Forms of the Latin American Present. In progress.
Articles
“‘Give the People What They Want!’: Immediacy, Meaning, and Cinematic Form in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman” In progress.
“The Art of the Game: Carlos Reygadas’s Serenghetti.” Under Review in Praktyka Teoretyczna.
"Why You Might Want to Pay Attention to Autonomy: A Response to José Eduardo González." Nonsite.org. (Winter 2021) : n. pag. Web.
"Toward an Aesthetics of Dead Time in Carlos Reygadas’s Japón." Forma 1.1 (Fall 2019): n. pag. Web.
"The Logic of Torture in Post-Historical Times: A Response to Erin Graff Zivin’s Figurative Inquisitions." Deinós. 4 (Dec. 2018) : n. pag. Web.
"Forms of Freedom in Pablo Larraín’s No and Neruda." Open Library of the Humanities. Eds. Alexander Beaumont and Adam Kelly. October, 2018.
"Mexican Working-Class Literature or The Work of Literature in Mexico." Working-Class Literature(s). Eds. Magnus Nilsson and John Lennon. Stockholm University Press. December, 2017.
"'La furia de la material:' Freedom, Form, and the Contemporaneity of Modernism in Latin America." With Emilio Sauri. The Contemporaneity of Modernism. Eds. Michael D’Arcy and Mathias Nilges. Routledge. November, 2015.
"Disability and Latin American Cultural Studies: A Critique of Corporeal Difference, Identity and Social Exclusion." Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. 4.2 (2015) : n.pag. Web.
"Making it Visible: Latin Americanist Criticism, Literature and the Question of Exploitation Today." With Emilio Sauri. Nonsite.org. 13 (Fall 2014) : n. pag. Web.
"What Can a Painting Do?: Absorption and Autonomy in Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib as a Response to Affect and the Moral Utopia of Human Rights." Modern Language Notes. 129.2 (2014). 412-432.
"Reconsidering Aesthetic Autonomy and Interpretation as a Critique of the Latin American Left in Roberto Bolaño's Estrella distante." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 47.3 (Fall 2013) 463-85.
"Introduction to Transformation and Adaptation." With Lisa Connell Spec. Issue of Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts. 11 (2012) 1-4.
"From Shopping Malls to Memory Museums: Reconciling the Recent Past in the Uruguayan Neoliberal State." Reconciliation and its Discontents. Invited Contributor of Spec. Issue of Dissidences. 4.8 (2012) : n. pag. Web.
"From Revolution to Human Rights in Mario Benedetti’s Pedro y el Capitán." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. 20.2 (2011): 121-37.
"Remembering Pain in Uruguay: What Memories Mean in Carlos Liscano’s El furgón de los locos." Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature. Eds. Yenna Wu and Simone Weil Davis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, July 2011.