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Vanessa Gubbins is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University. Her academic writing and teaching focus on Latin American literature with a concentration on the Andean Region and the Southern Cone. Gubbins' work explores themes of poetics and poetologies, as well as critical theories from the Global South including Andean and European philosophies, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and feminist theories. She is currently engaged in a book project titled 'Democracy’s Medium: Poems that Critique the Rule of the People in Peru and Germany', which studies how poetry can be utilized to critique dominant societal relations and envision alternative ones. This research follows a lineage of nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American and German poets who used their works as tools for critiquing the nation-state and fostering democratic social bonds. Gubbins is also the coordinator of the Gender and Feminist Theory working group within the Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network (LAIGN).
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