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The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times 

a lecture by Georgetown University professor Nicolás Campisi

Nicolás Campisi is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. He studies the relationship between literature and catastrophe in contemporary Latin America. Campisi will be introducing his recently published monograph (Pittsburgh 2024), where he explores how writers represent Latin America's neoliberal apocalypse brought about by ecological disaster, socioeconomic crisis, lingering traumas of dictatorship, and slavery's afterlives.

materia's theme this year is Energies of Energy, a meta-critical reflection on the emerging field of Energy Humanities in conversation with the traditional toolkit of literary and cultural criticism. The group is supported by the Research Unit of the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL). Campisi's visit is part of a multi-year series that examines various currents of anthropodecentric thought from a Latin Americanist and a comparative perspective.

More details to follow.