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We're thrilled to present our two keynote speakers at this year's conference:
Nicolas Campisi
Nicolas Campisi
Friday, April 4th
Carolyn Fornoff
Carolyn Fornoff
Saturday, April 5th
Nicolas Campisi (Georgetown University)
Nicolas Campisi (Georgetown University)
Dr. Nicolás Campisi is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. His research areas include contemporary Latin American literature, avant-garde writing, cultural production -especially soccer- and indigenous literatures, ecohorror and environmental humanities.
Professor Campisi’s first book is titled The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times (2024). This book argues that “Latin American writers travel back in time to understand the incompleteness of the present and the waning of the future during our neoliberal end times." His second book project is tentatively called Continental Ruins: The Literature of Ecohorror in Latin America, in which Professor Campisi focuses on mining, global pandemics, and pesticide poisoning.
For more information about Campisi’s profile, please click here.
Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University)
Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University)
Dr. Carolyn Fornoff is an assistant professor in Latin American Studies, in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. Her research areas include Mexican and Central American studies; visual culture, literature in Latin America; environmental humanities (ecocriticism, posthumanism) and critical race, gender and disability studies.
Prof. Fornoff’s most recent book is Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (2024), as part of the Mexican Critical Studies series, by Vanderbilt University Press. In this book, she proposes that “filmmakers and writers in Mexico have shifted away from art’s evidentiary function… and toward more subjunctive registers of hypothesis and uncertainty that grapple with how the world could be imagined otherwise." In addition, Professor Fornoff coedited two volumes in the environmental humanities: Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (2020) and Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema (2021).
For more information about Fornoff’s profile and research, please click here.
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