Visiting Scholar

Gonzalo Aguilar, a researcher at the National Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina delivered a lecture at the University of Georgia’s Latino and Caribbean Studies Institute (LACSI) on October 31, 2006. Aguilar presented the lecture, titled “In the White Forest: The Veiled Dialogue Between Helio Oiticia and Augusto and Haroldo de Campos”. The event was sponsored by LACSI and UGA’s Department of Romance Laguages.

Aguilar has been a visiting professor in the Departamento de Letras Modernas at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP); a visiting lecturer in the department of romance languages at Harvard University; and a visiting assistant professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University. He received a liberal arts degree in 1992 and a Ph.D. in literature in 2000, both from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 2003, he received a scholarship from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Harvard University) and in 2005, he was a Guggenheim Fellow.

Aguilar is the author of Poesía concreta: las vanguardias en la encrucijada modernista (Beatriz Viterbo, 2003), which was translated into Portuguese in 2005 (São Paulo, Edusp). A French edition is forthcoming. He is also the author of books on Oswald de Andrade, Gregório de Matos and anthologies of Brazilian literature and culture.

Aguilar’s most recent book on Argentine cinema is Otros mundos. Un ensayo sobre el nuevo cine argentino (Santiago Arcos Editor, 2006). In 1993, he co-authored with David Oubiña El cine de Leonardo Favio (Ediciones del Nuevo Extremo) and in 1994 he published Lautaro Murúa (Centro Editor de América Latina).