Coloquio Interdisciplinario 2023-24
March 8th, 2023
“Listening in the Anthropocene: Migrant Sonority and More-than-Human Perspectivism in Emiliano Monge’s Las tierras arrasadas”
Dr. Tamara L. Mitchell draws from her in-progress second book project, Sounds of the Capitalocene: Extraction and Aurality in the Mexican Novel, which traces how narrative soundscapes—or acoustic environments depicted in prose—become a means of critiquing and destabilizing extractive practices in the neoliberal present.
Full lecture
Dr. Tamara L. Mitchell
Tamara L. Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of British Columbia, works at the intersection of politics and aesthetics in contemporary Latin American narrative fiction. She has peer-reviewed articles in CR: The New Centennial Review, Modern Language Notes, Chasqui, and Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, among other venues, and her first book manuscript, Novel Crises: Postnational Fiction in Neoliberal Mexico and Central America, is presently under review.
Her current research interests are deeply attuned to the role of sound in narrative fiction. She is on the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association’s Sound Forum, co-editor of a special issue on “Latin American Literary Aurality” that will come out next month with the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and founding Director of the Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster at UBC.