Silvia Serrano is a postdoctoral associate in the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University.
She finished her Ph.D. in Latin American Studies also here at Duke. Her dissertation, “Intermedial Sutatenza: Media[ted] Narratives of Community-Making in Rural Colombia,” examines the tensions between Colombia’s nation building projects from above and community making narratives from below through the archive of a Catholic radio station in rural Colombia.
She has published on the cultural intervention of Colombian singer and songwriter Jorge Velosa and his carranguera music and is currently working on a project on Latino/a radio and rural communities in the 1960s United States.
Elia Romera-Figueroa is Ph.D. Candidate here at Duke in the Romance Studies Department.
She is a Fellow at the Social Movement Lab and at the Kenan Institute for Ethics.
Elia works on 20th century Spanish Cultural Studies, and in particular on feminist protest music during Francoism and Spain’s transition to democracy. She studies both the regimen repression on the singers as well as the way their music-making involved the creation of networks of solidarity during concerts, collective LPs, and music tours.
Recent publications are:
Devenires de un acontecimiento: Mayo del 68 cincuenta años después.
Marcelo Noah is a Ph.D. Candidate in Romance Studies at Duke focusing on the relation between literature and sound in Latin America from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
He investigates the relationship between literary artifacts and sound technologies in shaping cultural and political ecologies in the transition from modernity to post-modernity in Brazil.
He is currently teaching a class called Sound and Vision: Latin American literature and the Media. Among his artistic projects, Marcelo presents lecture-demonstrations of classical and popular Brazilian music, including the Five Preludes for Guitar by Heitor Villa-Lobos, which he will be presenting this Friday at the 6th Annual Global Brazil Conference here at Duke, and we are all invited.