Professor Dr. Carolina Carvalho

Biography

Carolina Sá Carvalho writes on modern Latin American arts, photography, film, and literature, with a focus on Brazil, environmental humanities, and infrastructure, exploring the relationship between aesthetics and politics. She is currently working on a book-length project that examines the aesthetics and politics of mosquitoes in 20th and 21st-century Brazil. She is the author of 'Traces Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America' (Northwestern 2023), which received the Roberto Reis Book Award from the Brazilian Studies Association and was shortlisted for the Modern Language Association Book Prize. This book explores the role of photography as visual evidence in the destructive processes of infrastructure development and extractive capitalist expansion in the Amazon and Brazilian metropolis. Carolina is also the coordinator of the SSHRC IG-funded Mosquito Network, an interdisciplinary project that investigates the role of mosquitoes in the perception and construction of cities. She teaches courses on Latin American and Luso-Afro-Brazilian arts, film, and literature at the graduate level, including seminars on Politics, Aesthetics, Multispecies Contagion, and Latin American Visual Culture.

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