Chelsea B. Stieber

Chelsea B. Stieber

Associate Professor- French

Kathryn B. Gore Chair in Nineteenth Century French Studies
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
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Courses

The Haitian Revolution, Voix d’esclaves/Voices of the enslaved

Research

Haiti, nineteenth-century Caribbean literature, history, and culture

Degrees

  • Ph.D., New York University, French/French Studies, 2013
  • M.A., New York University, French/French Studies, 2007
  • B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, French and Comparative Literature, 2006

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Associate Professor, Catholic University of America 2020-2023
  • Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America, 2013-2020

Distinctions

  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2020–2021
  • John W. Kluge Center Fellowship, Library of Congress, 2016–2017
  • Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 2012–2013
  • Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, New York University, 2011–2012

Languages

  • French
  • Haitian Creole

Overseas Experience

  • Haiti
  • France

Selected Publications

  • 2024. “Refuting Pro-Colonial discourse in Postcolonial Haitian Pamphlets,” in American Contact: Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History, Glenda Goodman and Rhae Lynn Barnes, eds. (forthcoming University of Pennsylvania Press 2024)
  • 2023. “Haïti farà da se: French Third Republican Colonial Universalism and Louis Joseph Janvier’s Haitian Autonomy,” in Haiti for the Haitians, Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea Stieber, eds. (Liverpool University Press 2023)
  • 2023. “The Heritage of Haitian Combat Writing in Félix Darfour’s L’Eclairieur haytien and L’Avertisseur - Haytien,” Revue d’Histoire Haïtienne/Haitian History Review 1.3 (2023): 381–410.
  • 2022. “Mémoire and Vindicationism in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue,” Small Axe 67 (2022): 30–54.

Carolina Sánchez

Carolina Sánchez

Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow

Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Research

20th - and 21st -Century Latin American Literature and Culture, Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies: Literature, Philosophy, and Visual Studies, Public Scholarship, Creative Writing.  

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Rutgers, Spanish Literature, 2024
  • M.A. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Literary Studies, 2018
  • B.A., Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2016

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Co-editor of Plataforma Latinoamericana de Humanidades Ambientales 2020-
  • Instructor, Rutgers University, 2019-2023

Distinctions

  • Fulbright Scholarship 2019-2022.
  • DAAD Scholarship for the Summer School, “Extractivism and Its Discontents: Cultural and Artistic Counter Movements.” University of Kassel, Documenta Institut, Más arte más acción, DAAD, Documenta Fifteen, Instituto Capaz. Kassel, Germany. September 2022.

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Colombia
  • Germany

Selected Publications

  • 2024. “The Dam is a Form of Border. A Notion of Environmental Historical Memory in the Work of Carolina Caycedo” escritos. Revista científica. Vol. 32-68. https://revistas.upb.edu.co/index.php/escritos/issue/archive
  • 2022. Un gabinete para el futuro. Edited by Gisela Heffes, Alejandro Ponce de León, Christian Vásquez y Carolina Sánchez. Bogotá: Urdimbres.
  • 2022. “Public Secrets, Private Violence. A Reading of Laura Restrepo’s Delirio.” Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production: Embodied Enactments. Eds. Carlos Gardeazábal y Kevin Guerrieri. Routledge Publishers.
  • 2022. “Seguir el viento, dar la mano”. Dossier: Texturas de las Humanidades Ambientales en América Latina. Papel de Colgadura. Edited by Sofía Rosa, Jesús Alejandro García and Alejandro Ponce de Léon. 22 (2022): 84-91.
  • 2021. “Land and Shade: Haptic Cinema, Environmental Violence and Migration in Colombia” Tepokorá. Revista Latinoamericana De Humanidades Ambientales Y Estudios Territoriales, 3.1 (2021): 327-347.

Irene Depetris Chauvin

Irene Depetris Chauvin

Visiting Associate Professor

Greenleaf Scholar in Residence
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
  • Southern Cone
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Research

Contemporary Latin American Cinemas (Southern Cone and Brazil), Theories of Affect, Soundtracks, Geographical Imaginaries, Environmental Humanities, Displacement and Migration, Memory Studies, Brazilian and Argentine Cultural History

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Romance Studies, Cornell University, 2011
  • M.A., Hispanic Literature, Cornell University, 2008
  • B.A., History, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2002

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Associate Professor, Universidad Nacional de las Artes, 2019-
  • Researcher, CONICET- Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2013-

Distinctions

  • Getty Foundation Travel Grant to attend the Committee of Art History (CIHA) World Congress, “Matter and Materiality”, Lyon, France, June 2024
  • Research Grant for Academic and Filmmakers Exchange. Universidad del Cine: “Disyunciones entre imagen visual e imagen sonora en el cine documental-ensayo”. Co-direction with Pablo Pachilla, 2020-2024.
  • Multiannual Research Project. PICT [Projects of Scientific and Technological Research] project 2018-2014 “Arte, afectos y modos de estar juntos. Acercamientos transnacionales al giro afectivo”. Role: Researcher. Director: Dr. Cecilia Macón, 2020-2023.
  • Multiannual Research Project for CONICET, 2017- 2021 (PIP). “Performances afectivas. Nuevos modos de “estar juntos” en el escenario latinoamericano contemporáneo”. Role: Director.
  • Multiannual Research Project for Fondecyt. “Políticas del archivo en el audiovisual latinoamericano... en la conformación de sentidos históricos contemporáneos”. Researcher. Director: Dr. Natalia Taccetta, 2017-2019.
  • LASA Film Studies Section. Award for Best Essay Published by a Professor. Boston, 2019. Article: “Mirar, escuchar, tocar. Políticas y poéticas de archivo en Tierra sola de Tiziana Panizza”.
  • LASA Visual Studies Section. Award for Best Essay Published by a Professor. Barcelona. 2018. Article: Memorias en el presente: Afecto y espectralidad en imaginarios acuáticos contemporáneos." Aniki vol.4, n.º 1 (2017): 170-190

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Portuguese

Overseas Experience

  • Argentina
  • Brazil
  • Chile

Selected Publications

  • Forthcoming. “Su sonrisa socialista. Repertorios afectivos en torno a Helen Keller”. Dossier Políticas y poéticas del afecto. Revista Estudios Filológicos, UACH, Chile, forthcoming.
  • Forthcoming. "Escucha expandida. Apuntes para pensar los vínculos entre interpelación, corporalidad y afecto en la música", Revista Anales, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, forthcoming.
  • 2023. “Escuchar la materia vibrante. Habitar y recordar el territorio desde una perspectiva sonora y sensorial”. Revista Puntosur 9, 2023.
  • 2023. “A Geological Cinema: Time and Fossil Aesthetics in Tatiana Mazú González’s Documentary, Río Turbio” Comparative Cinema 20, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023.
  • 2022. “La niña, el bosque, el viento y toda la memoria del mundo. Recorridos sensoriales en EAMI, de Paz Encina” Dixit 36(2), 2022
  • 2022. “Una selva sensorial. Espacialidad háptica en algunas instalaciones de Ernesto Neto". Revista Artilugio 8, Córdoba. ISSN. 2408-462X 2022. 2022.
  • 2022. Performances Afectivas. Arte, cine, artivismo y modos de lo común en América Latina. Co-edited with Natalia Taccetta, Buenos Aires, Teseo, 2022.
  • 2020. “La docu(ciencia)ficción como máquina de circulación de afectos. Música, vibración y temporalidades desarticuladas en Branco Sai, Preto Fica”. MusiMid 1, no. 3 (2020): 103-132.
  • 2020. “Memories in the Present. Aquatic Imaginaries in Contemporary Cinema”, Liquid Ecologies in the Arts. Fluidities and Counterflows in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ed. Lisa Blackmore y Liliana Gómez-Popescu. Londres: Routledge.
  • 2019. Geografías afectivas. Desplazamientos, prácticas espaciales y formas de estar juntos en el cine de Argentina, Chile y Brasil (2002-2017). Pittsburgh, USA: Latin America Research Commons, 2019.
  • 2019. “Ecologías líquidas. Geografías acuáticas en las artes audiovisuales de Brasil, Argentina y Chile”. 452ºF Número 21 (2019) 125-150.
  • 2019. Más allá de la naturaleza. Prácticas y configuraciones espaciales en la cultura latinoamericana contemporánea. Coeditedwith Macarena Urzúa. Editorial Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile, 2019.
  • 2019. Afectos, historia y cultura visual. Una aproximación indisciplinada. Co-edited with Natalia Taccetta, Buenos Aires, 2019.

Racism and Health in Latin America

The Center for Health Equity in Latin America (CHELA) is hosting its first biennial meeting on Racism and Health in Latin America in October 2024 at Tulane University’s Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, with leaders from Latin American public health schools and programs. The objective of this event is to promote teaching and research aimed at preventing racism in the provision of health care in the region from the perspective of Latin American social medicine.

Racism and Health in Latin America

The goal of the meeting is to discuss teaching and research to prevent racism in healthcare facilities in the region from a Latin American social medicine perspective. This region is known for its vast ethnic diversity and significant inequities in health outcomes that frequently correlate with social and ethnic backgrounds. Racist practices in healthcare facilities are widespread, resulting in unsafe and disrespectful healthcare delivery or even complete neglect.

Sarah Brokenborough

Sarah Brokenborough

Student

Ph.D. Student
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Students
Tulane Affiliation
Graduate Student

Biography

Sarah Brokenborough is from Piscataway, New Jersey. She completed an MA History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, an M.A. in Latin American Studies at Georgetown University and a B.A. in Comparative Women’s Studies at Spelman College. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on material and visual culture, modernity, empire, and enslaved girlhood in Brazil and the Caribbean.  

After completing her M.A. in Latin American Studies, Sarah contributed to foreign policy as a U.S. Diplomat, policy analyst, and public affairs consultant. As a two-time recipient of the Fulbright ETA grant, Sarah designed and led English-language courses and public events for young adults in Vientiane, Laos. She is committed to supporting local communities’ engagement with archival materials and historical narratives through contemporary art. 

Degrees

  • B.A. in Comparative Women’s Studies, Spelman College
  • M.A. History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • M.A. in Latin American Studies, Georgetown University

Jacqueline Amezcua

Jacqueline Amezcua

Student

M.A. Student
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Students
Tulane Affiliation
Graduate Student

Biography

Originally from Los Angeles, CA, Jacqueline holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies and Spanish from Dickinson College. Her research interests include expressions of queerness, Blackness, performance resistance and urban resilience in the northeastern region of Brazil. She aims to advocate for the (re)writing of histories to incorporate elements of accessibility, focusing on stories of resilience, community, and living memory. She ultimately hopes that her writings and incorporation of performance can serve as a tool for embodied civic engagement. 

Degrees

  • B.A. in Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies and Spanis, Dickinson College

Latin American Library Exhibit Opening

Join the Latin American Library for the opening of a very special exhibit and reception to mark one hundred years of Tulane’s dedication to Latin American studies. The exhibit, “A distinguished Trajectory: Reshaping Histories at the Latin American Library,” tells the story of Tulane’s longstanding engagement with Latin America through the library’s many treasures. It also highlights how the university’s focus on the region has been shaped by New Orleans’ historical connections with Spain, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Haiti Book and Film Club

Interested in Haitian Literature and Film? The Department of French and Italian is hosting a book club this fall! All are welcome and texts can be read in French or in English. No grades, no stress, just an opportunity to get together a few times over the course of the semester and exchange ideas.

 

We will discussing the book Amour, Colère, Folie (Love, Anger, Madness) from the author Marie Vieux Chauvet.

 

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