Dr. Mariela Méndez
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Profile
Dr. Méndez’s research engages comparative literary studies and feminist and queer theories to interrogate representations of genders and sexualities in print culture throughout Latin America. In particular, she addresses the various ways in which women writers have used the press to craft alternative spaces of cultural, aesthetic, and political intervention that disrupt heteronormative ideologies. She teaches at the intersection of Latin American Studies, Performance Studies, Transnational Feminisms, Queer Theory, and Feminist New Materialisms. She is the author of the book Crónicas travestis: El periodismo transgresor de Alfonsina Storni, Clarice Lispector y María Moreno (Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2017), and is currently working on a book on Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. She has co-edited several anthologies of essays in Argentina, Chile, Spain, and the U.S.
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Grants and Fellowships
Fulbright Scholar Award to Brazil, 2020-2021
Collaborative Two-Year Research Grant for a Project on Latin American Magazines awarded by CONICYT, Gobierno de Chile
Fulbright Student Award, 1998-2000
Delta Kappa Gamma World Fellowship for Women Educators, 1998-1999.
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Awards
Premio Victoria Urbano en la categoría de Monografía Crítica (Victoria Urbano Award on the Monograph Category) of the Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades for the book Crónicas travestis, July 2019.
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Certifications
Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Grants and Fellowships
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Publications
Books
El arte de pensar sin riesgos: Cien años de Clarice Lispector, Co-Editor. Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor, 2021.
El Affair Moreno, Co-Editor. Buenos Aires: Editorial Mansalva, 2021.
Urbanas y modernas: Crónicas periodísticas de Alfonsina Storni, Co-Editor. Valencia: Barlin Libros, 2019.
Crónicas travestis: El periodismo transgresor de Alfonsina Storni, Clarice Lispector y María Moreno. Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2017
Escrituras a ras del suelo: crónica latinoamericana del siglo xx, Co- Editor. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Finis Terrae, 2014.
Un libro quemado, Co-Editor. Buenos Aires: Editorial Excursiones, 2014.
Nosotras . . . y la piel, Co-Editor. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 1998.
Journal Articles“¡Hay doscientas mujeres de talento que escriben en el país!” Archivos, afectos y feminismos (with Tania Diz). Badebec: Revista del Centro de Estudios de Teoría Crítica y Literaria 13.25 (September 2023). Contains seven blindly reviewed scholarly essays on the intertwined trajectories of Latin American archives, feminisms and literatures.
Nuestra Clarice: Un proyecto latinoamericano (with Constanza Penacini). A contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos 20.3 (Spring 2023). Contains seven blindly reviewed scholarly essays by junior and senior scholars of Brazilean writer Clarice Lispector’s work, with an introduction that serves launch the curated website of the same name.
“Crônica íntima para Clarice,” Clarice Lispector e João Cabral de Melo Neto: O Centenário. Taciana Oliveira, Org. Recife, Brazil: Mirada, 2020.
"Stop Silencing Latin American Women's Voices: The Case of Clarice Lispector Biographer Nádia Battella Gotlib" Medium, 13 August 2020.
“COVID-19 and the White Spaces of Academia.” Digital Feminist Collective. July 19, 2020.
“Operación Araña: Reflections on How a Performative Intervention in Buenos Aires’s Subway System can Help Rethink Feminist Activism.” Revista Estudos Históricos 33.70, 2020: 280-297.
“O sucesso do inacabado: Clarice Lispector e sua ‘Children’s Corner’ na revista Senhor” [“The Success of the Unfinished: Clarice Lispector and her ‘Children’s Corner’ in the Magazine Senhor”]. Journal of Lusophone Studies 4.2, Fall 2019: 103-123.
“Performando un activismo feminista: El trabajo de Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez en La Marca” [Performing a Feminist Activism: The work of Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez in La Marca], co-authored with Patricia Herrera. Revista Conjunto Casa de las Américas 192-193, Julio-Diciembre 2019: 53-57.
‘“Um “isto” que não chega a ser crônica’: Nuevos materialismos en la prosa de Clarice Lispector” [“‘This Something that Never Becomes a Chronicle’: New Materialisms in the Prose of Clarice Lispector”]. Cuadernos de Literatura 23.45, Enero-Junio 2019: 279-297.
“De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” [“Of Crepuscular Women and Modern Garotas: The transvestite columns of Alfonsina Storni and Clarice Lispector”]. Revista Iberoamericana 84.264, 2018: 637-654.
""Aulinhas de Sedução" [Small Lessons in Seduction]: Clarice Lispector on How (Not) to Be a Woman." Angelaki 22.1, 2017: 197-206.
“‘Só para mulheres (Just for Women):’ Alfonsina Storni’s and Clarice Lispector’s Transgression of the Women's Page.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 35.2, Fall 2016: 413-437.
“El Teje: Primer Periódico Travesti Latinoamericano, o de cómo resignificar cuerpos que hablen y militen” [“El Teje: Primer Periódico Travesti Latinoamericano, or How to Resignify Speaking, Militant Bodies”]. Letras Femeninas 42.1, Summer/Fall 2016: 143-155.
"Alternative Mappings of Belonging: Non son de aquí by María do Cebreiro and Rasgado by Lila Zemborain." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 91.6, September 2014: 637-658.
"Disorienting the Furniture: The Transgressive Journalism of Alfonsina Storni and Charlotte Perkins Gilman." Journal of Transnational American Studies 1(2), March 2010.
"Identidad a contrapelo: Subjetividad femenina y espacios urbanos en el diario de Carolina Maria de Jesus." Nuevo Mundo/Mundos Nuevos, Debates 2009, November 2009
"‘The Republic of Women:' Notes Towards a Critical Assessment," Brújula, No. 4, University of California Davis, December 2005.
Book Chapters“Decolonial Antiracist Feminist Digital Activism: Naming Carolina Maria de Jesus and Marielle Franco on X (formerly Twitter),” co-authored with Alejandra Josiowicz. Black Lives Matter in Latin America: Continuities in Racism, Cross-National Resistance and Mobilization in the Americas. Cloves Luiz Pereira Oliveira, Gladys Lanier Mitchell-Walthour & Minion K. C. Morrison, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 409-440.
“Cuir/Queer Afro-Cuban and Xicanx Transnational Encounters: Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez’s Dualidad: Todas las partes de mi ser,” co-authored with Patricia Herrera. Bodies on the Front Line: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Brenda Werth and Katherine Zien, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. 305-323.
“Materialismos feministas e arquivos: à procura da experiência sensorial em Clarice Lispector” [“Feminist Materialisms and Arquives: In Search of the Sensorial Experience in Clarice Lispector”] Mulheres escritoras: arquivos literários e feminismos na América Latina. Alejandra Josiowicz, Bernardo Huarque de Holanda e Carolina Gonçalves, eds. Rio de Janeiro: FGV Editora, 2023. 75-85.
“Que(e)rying Femininities: Clarice Lispector’s ‘Correio Feminino’ on TV Globo.” After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century. Adriana X. Jacobs and Claire Williams, eds. Cambridge, UK: Legenda, 2022. 321-334.
"Memoria, espacio y lenguaje en Rasgado de Lila Zemborain." Memoria e imaginación poética en el Cono sur (1960-2010). Ediciones Corregidor, 2015: 163-176.
“Aliadas e insurrectas: Las columnas femeninas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector.” Redes, alianzas y afinidades. Mujeres y escritura en América Latina. Ediciones Uniandes y Universidad de Chile, 2014: 177-193.
Additional Publications“El Teje (2007-2012).” Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History. Howard Chiang, ed. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2019.
OtherInterview with Daniela Buksdorf on El arte de pensar sin riesgos: Cien años de Clarice Lispector (Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor, 2021) on New Books Network ES, 12 November 2021. Also available on Apple Podcasts.
Journal of Lusophone Studies 4.2 Special Dossier on Clarice Lispector’s Journalism, Editor, Fall 2019.