Luz Horne ,
Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian & Latin American Literature

Luz Horne, Assistant Professor of Brazilian and Spanish American Literatures, received her Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale University (2005) and her B.A in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires (1999). Before coming to Cornell she taught at Northwestern University. She specializes in Modern and Contemporary Brazilian and Spanish American literatures and cultures. Her book project studies a new kind of realism in recent Argentine and Brazilian literature, in which she argues that an aesthetic innovation is produced by the incorporation of specific avant-garde techniques into a narrative displaying elements of traditional realisms. Her research interests include aesthetic changes in literature and visual arts in contemporary Latin America, theories of realism and photography, and the links between literature and images, and between representation and politics. She is starting to work on the documentary tradition in twentieth-century Latin American chronicle, photography and film.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Hacia un nuevo realismo. Caio Fernando Abreu, César Aira, Sergio Chejfec y João Gilberto Noll (Book manuscript in progress).

“La interrupción de un banquete de hombres solos: una lectura de Teresa de la Parra como contracanon del ensayo latinoamericano.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año XXXI, Nº 61, Lima-Hanover, 1er Semestre de 2005, pp. 9-19.

“A Portrait of the Present: Towards an ‘Indexical Realism’ in Contemporary Argentine and Brazilian Narrative” (In progress).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Brazilian and Spanish American Narrative, Film and Thought
Visual Studies, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
Theories of Realism
Theories of Photography
The documentary tradition in Latin America

RECENT COURSES

Perspectives on Brazil
Readings in Modern Brazilian Literature
Brazilian Cinema: 1960’s to the Present
The Return of the Real: New Realisms in Latin American Literature