Gonzalo Aguiar

Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti received his BA from the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay (Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación) and his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. He specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American
literature and cultural studies. He is the author of La modernidad refractada: pensamiento, creación y resistencia en la historia intelectual de Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay, 1900-1935 (Cuarto Propio), a comparative study that delves into the cultural and ideological work made by
a group of intellectuals from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay at the turn of the 20th century. His main research interests include Latin American intellectual history, film studies, race in the Southern Cone, and U.S.-Latin America cultural relations. He has taught a wide range of courses
in Spanish, Portuguese, and English at Tulane University, Florida Atlantic University, and at SUNY Oswego, including Latin American intellectuals and politics, race and cinema, race and policing in the Americas, and a first-year course on cultural stereotyping in the history of US- Latin America foreign policy. He was the 2022-2023 President of Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS).

Professor Aguiar Malosetti is currently working on two book projects.

• “Tropes of Violent Inequality: Race, Policing, and Necropolitical Government in Brazilian Cinema”,” throws light at contemporary cultural production – particularly Brazilian literature and film – featuring violence as a mechanism of socialization into a society fragmented by
  spatial, social, gender, and racial exclusions.
• “Alfredo Mario Ferreiro and the Uruguayan Avant-Garde.” is a historical and cultural reassessment of the Uruguayan avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s. The project examines how avant-garde poets and filmmakers assimilated the influence of the US film industry – the
  classical Hollywood cinema in particular – as well as European experimentations in poetry and visual culture to create a body of artistic work that interrogates the cultural dependence that Latin America has traditionally had with the Global North. 

Selected publications

• “Dinámicas étnico-raciales en el Cono Sur: de las políticas de asimilación al activismo militante.” Herder Editorial. Forthcoming. (2024)
• “Ethno-Racial Landscapes in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile: From Assimilation to Contestation.” In Constructing the Racial "Other". Race and Ethnicity in Latin America. Mabel Moraña and Miguel Valerio, eds. Vanderbilt University Press. Forthcoming. (2023)
• “Necropaisajes del nordeste brasileño: cuerpos racializados y fantasías asesinas de la ultraderecha en Bacurau.” In Partera de la historia: violencia en literatura, performance y medios audiovisuales en Latinoamérica. Chrystian Zegarra and Osvaldo Sandoval León, eds.
  Editora Nómada-Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. 281-299. (2022)
• “’Ufano de criollismo’: nación, cultura y función intelectual en las crónicas europeas de José Enrique Rodó.” In José Enrique Rodó: el internacionalismo americano / José Enrique Rodó: The American Internationalism. Ed. Lady Rojas Benavente (Concordia University).
  Enigma Editores. 69-99. (2019)

Selected Conference Papers

• “Relaciones de poder, conciencia política y derechos humanos en la literatura carcelaria brasileña.” 57th Congress of Americanists (ICA). Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. (2023)
• “Bacurau y la construcción del enemigo en el cine brasileño.” (LASA) (2023)
• “Declassifying US-Latin America Relations in the Classroom: A Perspective from Literary and Cultural Studies.” Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS). (2022)
• “Is It All True?: Readership and Spectatorship in Antônio Xerxenesky’s F.” Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). (2022)