Carlos Halaburda
Köln
Host: Peter W. Schulze
Portugiesisch-Brasilianisches Institut
Carlos Halaburda
Vita
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023-2024 Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, European Commission Department of Romance Studies, Universität zu Köln Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies Associate Fellow
2022-2023 Erich Auerbach Visiting Research Fellow, University of Cologne, Germany
2021-2023 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Victoria College, University of Toronto
EDUCATION
2021 Ph.D., Spanish & Portuguese and Critical Theory, Northwestern University, USA
2016 Master of Arts in Latin American History, University of British Columbia, Canada
2014 Bachelor of Arts, History & Spanish, University
Research Areas
- Global Nineteenth Century Studies
- Modern Latin American Cultural History
- Argentine and Southern Cone LGBTQ Cultural Production
- Queer, Crip, and Trans* Literatures
- Race, Racism, and Eugenics in the Americas
- The History of Science and Technology
- Disability Studies
- Medical Humanities
Research Project
Modernism’s Trans* Cultural Productions in Latin America, 1905-1933 is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Action funded project ( ID 101103095) of the European Commission. It analyses the historical conditions for the cultural emergence of a new gender expression in early-twentieth-century Latin America: the marimacho. In the Hispanic tradition, marimacho is the umbrella notion that may refer to a sexist slur as much as an early-modern form of a non-binary gender, a transmasculine subjectivity, or a lesbian identity. By exploring the untold history of this counter-cultural and gender-dissident figure, this project seeks to increase the understanding of the region’s cultural politics of gender and sexuality in the “age of the closet”, that is, before the emergence of LGBTQ activisms, pride literature, and minority politics in the Global 1960s.
As part of my residence as an associate fellow at the Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies (2023-2024), I look at two historical events of important implications for public discourse around gender and sexual transgressions against a heteronormative status quo in early twentieth- century Argentina. In my chapter The Garçonne Affair, I examine the transnational literary circuits by which the French novel La Garçonne (1922) [The Butch] by Victor Margueritte was used to discuss female bisexualism, lesbianism, and gender-bending practices in Buenos Aires. As tango songs (Correa, 1923), poems (Flores, 1922), translations (La machona, 1923), drawings (Los selectos, 1923), theatre plays (La machona, Morales/Suero, 1923), and essays (Quiroga, 1923; Valdelomar, 1926; Aramburu, 1926) were dedicated to Margueritte’s queer text, the chapter uncovers the politics of translation and appropriation of ‘female deviance’ in Southern Cone popular culture. My other chapter in progress is titled Exotic Perversions and evaluates hysteria, sadomasochism, and prostitution as tropes of European degeneration theory (Kraft-Ebbing, 1886; Nordau, 1892) that were key in the fabrication of immigrant women as deviant in 1920s and 1930s Buenos Aires. The serialized collection Los realistas (1923), published by the Argentine avant-garde Boedo Group, is used to show how working-class Jewish and Polish women, far from being associated to motherhood, came to embody a deviant version of masculinity that undermined Argentina’s racial project of whitening the mestizo nation, showing the intricate relation between categories of race, gender, sexuality, and nation.
Publications (Selection)
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
2023 “No matarás: los mandatos éticos del rostro en Soldados de Salamina (2001) y La sombra de Heidegger (2005).” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 45, no. 2, 375-396.
2023 “Necropolitics of the Mexican Hymen: Virginity, Bare Life, and Sovereign Power in Santa (1903), The Son of the State, and The Hymen in Mexico.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, Volume 77, Issue 1, 2023, pp. 14-33.
2021 “Lunfardos: Queerness, Social Prophylaxis, and the Futures of Reproduction in Fin-de-Siècle Argentine Dramaturgy.” Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 54, no. 2, 2021, pp. 119-43. LASA, Sexualities Section, Carlos Monsiváis Best Article Award. Canadian Association of Hispanic Scholars Best Article Award.
2020 “Governmental Fictions: The Naturalist Novel and the Making of Population in Fin-de-Siècle Brazil.” Taller de letras. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, vol. 66, no. 1, 2020, pp. 167-183.
Book Chapters
2022 “Turn-of-the-Century Buenos Aires, a Capital of Queer Spectacles.” Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century: Spaces beyond the Centers. Eds. Arunima Bhattacharya, Richard Hibbitt, and Laura Scuriatti. Palgrave Macmillan (2022).
2022 “Peripheral Orientalism in the River Plate.” Co-authored with Daniel Balderston. Luxuria: la vida nocturna de Buenos Aires. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2022.
Edited Books
2022 Critical re-edition of the novel, Luxuria: la vida nocturna de Buenos Aires (1936) by Otto Miguel Cione. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2020 Michelena, Tomás. Débora. Novela original. 1884 (Venezuela). Bogotá, Himpar.