LAURA COLANERI, PH.D.
Scholarly Monographs
The Sinister Southern Cone: Mood, Affect, and Horror in the Cultural Imaginaries of Latin American State Terror.
In progress.
Dissertation
“The Sinister Southern Cone: Mood, Affect, and Horror in the Cultural Imaginary of Argentine and Brazilian State Terror.” Approved with honors, June 2023.
Recipient of the Dean of the Humanities' Distinguished Dissertation Award, 2024.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Cannibal Capitalists: The Horrors of Latin American Eco-fascism in Cadáver exquisito (2017)." Special Issue on Latin American and Latinx Eco-horror, co-edited by Juan Esteban Plaza and María José Navia. In progress.
Translations
Schwarcz, Lilia K. Moritz and Stumpf, Lúcia Klück. “The Body of the Nation: Images of Sovereignty in Times of War in Seventeenth Nineteenth Century Brazil.” The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America, edited by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Graciela Montaldo, Routledge. Under review.
Saraceni, Gina. “Tropical Seas: Scenes of the Caribbean in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives.” The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America, edited by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Graciela Montaldo, Routledge. Under review.
Abreu, Alberto. "Racial Dynamics and Tensions in Twenty-First Century Post-Revolutionary Cuba.” Trajectories of Empire: Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora, edited by Jerome Branche, Vanderbilt University Press, 2022, pp. 215-244.
Silva Nascimento, Eronilde da. “Pedro Nascimento: Testimony of an Ex-comrade and Militant.” Translation from Memorial dos Nossos Filhos Vivos – as vítimas invisíveis da de democracia, Movimento Mães de Maio.
Gazza, Márcia. “Peterson Conti Senoreli.” Translation from Memorial dos Nossos Filhos Vivos – as vítimas invisíveis da de democracia, Movimento Mães de Maio.
Scholarly Presentations
Guest Lectures
“Hauntings, Ghosts, Remembering, and Forgetting in the Guatemalan Genocide." Seminar Course, “RDNI 21300/31300, ENGL 21302/31302, Aftermath: Literature of Reparation, Redress, Refusal, and Change,” University of Chicago, November 22, 2024
Conferences
“Cannibal Capitalists: The Horrors of Latin American Eco-fascism in Cadáver exquisito (2017)." American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Montreal, ON, Canada, March 16, 2024
“Shadowy Terrors: Occult Necropolitics and Dictatorial Violence in Twentieth-Century Argentina.” Accepted for the Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 4, 2024
“Reproductive Horrors Unearthed in the Short Stories of Mariana Enríquez and Amparo Dávila.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Niagara Falls, NY, March 25, 2023
“The Feminine Corpse as Gothic Protagonist in Tomás Eloy Martínez’s Santa Evita." Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 11, 2022
“‘¿De qué lado estás?’”: Upper-Class Womanhood, Complicity, and the Revenant in Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona (Guatemala, 2019)." Latin American Studies Association Conference, Virtual, May 29, 2021
“Gothic Spaces, Hidden Histories: The Haunted Houses of the Spanish Post-Dictatorship.” "Global Horror: Local Perspectives,” Progressive Connexions Conference, Virtual, February 28, 2021. Originally scheduled to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, in April 2020; rescheduled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
“The Sinister Influences of the Spirits: Spiritism and Political Power in Twentieth-Century Argentina.” Accepted for the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Guadalajara, Mexico, May 16, 2020. Withdrawn due to conference changes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The Sinister Influences of the Spirits: ‘El Brujo José López Rega, the Logia Anael, the AAA, and Spiritism in Twentieth-Century Argentine Politics.” Chicago Graduate Conference in Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latinx Studies, Chicago, IL, April 20, 2019
“‘El cielo se está cayendo a todos lados’: Monstruos escondidos y conflictos sociales en Los parecidos (2015)” Co-authored with Eduardo Leão, Congreso Internacional México Transatlántico, Monterrey, México, March 21, 2018
“Graduate Student Journal Editing and Publishing with Spanish and Portuguese Review.” Roundtable, American Association for Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Conference, Chicago, IL, July 9, 2017
“Bestial Perspectives: Bodies, Signs, and the Development of Human-Animal Relationships in Un viejo que leía novelas de amor and ‘Meu tio o iauaretê.’” Carolina Conference for Romance Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, March 31, 2017
“Opposed Politics, Gendered Rhetoric: Commonalities in the Formation of Two Women’s Movements in Twentieth-Century Argentina.” Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., February 18, 2017
“El arte de morir: La muerte, la deshumanización y la agencia femenina en Santa Evita de Tomás Eloy Martínez.” Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, February 10, 2017
“Tened cuidado: lo que ahi habita, no es humano”: Human and Inhuman Monsters in Pan’s Labyrinth as Expressions of a Collective Heritage of Fears." Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, University at Albany, Albany, NY, April 2012. Recipient of Honorable Mention award.
Workshops
“The Warlock, the Lodge, and the AAA.” Paper presented at Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Chicago, December 1, 2022.
“The Abject Materiality of Artur Barrio’s Trouxas Ensanguentadas.” Paper presented at Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Chicago, December 2, 2021.
“The Haunted Southern Cone: Haunted Houses and the Ghosts of the Disappeared in Chile and Argentina.” Paper presented at the 20th and 21st Century Workshop, University of Chicago, March 9, 2020.
“Gothic Spaces, Hidden Histories: The Haunted Houses of the Spanish and Uruguayan Post-Dictatorships and their Inhabitants.” Paper presented at Workshop on Latin American and the Caribbean, University of Chicago. November 29, 2018.
Public Scholarship
Blog Posts
“Powers of Terror: Esotericism and the Argentine Dictatorship.” Contextos, Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago, May 8, 2020.
Podcast Appearances
“Los Parecidos, AKA The Similars (GUEST: Laura Colaneri).” Mike and Mike Go to the Movies, Rapture Press Podcast Network, October 27, 2022.
“Laura Colaneri Makes Us Watch At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964) and Cold Sweat (2010)!” Mike and Mike Go to the Movies, Rapture Press Podcast Network, October 7, 2021.
“Laura Makes Mikes Watch Mexican Horror!” Mike and Mike Go to the Movies, Spotify, March 10, 2021.
“Socialist Seance with Laura Colaneri.” Horror Vanguard, Soundcloud, June 14, 2019.