Overview
Romina Wainberg is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow. She holds a Spec. in Creative Writing from Casa de Letras, a B.A. in Literary Theory and Modern Literature from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, an M.Phil in Hispanic Studies from the University of Glasgow, and a Ph.D. in Iberian and Latin American Cultures from Stanford University. Her research addresses the still unresolved question of what “writing” is. In her first book project, she argues that nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Latin American novelists posited innovative theories of writing in their fiction, debunking the myth of the author as an “inspired genius” and reconceiving the act of penning as a mediated, embodied, effortful, and ecological activity. Her follow-up research explores how South American science fiction and Queer art imagine writing technologies of the future.
More broadly speaking... Romina is interested in Latin American aesthetics' potential for expanding the onto-epistemological breadth of other fields of knowledge; some of the intersections that she has explored so far include: media theory, philosophy of technology, and science fiction; motion graphics and aesthetic computing; plastic art and philosophy of art; postmodern novels and theories of individuation; Amerindian thought, contemporary metaphysics, and short fiction; feminist philosophy and perspectival anthropology; poetry, gender identity laws, and LGBTQ+ approaches to the gender/sex dyad. She has also worked on the relationship between extractivism and aesthetics in Portugal and Brazil—in particular, she has examined the tension between gemstones’ chemical composition, their historical aestheticization, and the forced and exploitative labor inherent in their geological extraction.
Feel free to contact her: rominaw@cornell.edu!
Publications
2022-2023 Publications
Books
Sujetos del latinoamericanismo. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Co-edited with Héctor Hoyos and Florencia Garramuño, 2023.
Queer Latin American Voices. Weston: Katakana Editores. Co-edited with Alberto Quintero. Forthcoming, 2023.
Book chapters
“Writing about Writing Amidst the End of Worlds: An Invitation.” Post-Global Aesthetics: Twenty-First Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures. Edited by Gesine Müller and Benjamin Loy. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022.
“Alter-regímenes escópicos. Modos de ver y de ser visto en la narrativa especulativa contemporánea.” Régimen escópico y experiencia. Figuraciones de la mirada y el cuerpo en la literatura y las artes. Edited by Alicia Montes and Cristina Ares. Buenos Aires, Los Angeles: Argus-a, 2022.
“O que há de real no virtual.” Arte e Inovação em Tempos de Pandemia. Co-authored with Ami Schiess. Edited by Rodolfo Augusto Melo Ward de Oliveira. Brasília: Universidade de Brasília, 2022.
Articles
“Cómo banalizar la deconstrucción en solo cinco pasos. Usos, ¿abusos? y potencialidades del término ‘deconstrucción’ en el presente,” Revista Luthor, Volume 53, 2022, 1-27.
“¿Puede la literatura hacer metafísica? Metafísica no-proposicional y aperturas inter-cosmológicas en ‘Meu tio o Iauaretê’ de João Guimarães Rosa,” Revista Iberoamericana, Issue 281, Volume 88, 2022, 927-38.