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  • Blakey Vermeule

    Blakey Vermeule

    Albert Guérard Professor of Literature

    BioBlakey Vermeule's research interests are neuroaesthetics, cognitive and evolutionary approaches to art, philosophy and literature, British literature from 1660-1820, post-Colonial fiction, satire, and the history of the novel. She is the author of The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2000) and Why Do We Care About Literary Characters? (2009), both from The Johns Hopkins University Press. She is writing a book about what mind science has discovered about the unconscious.

  • Yosa Vidal

    Yosa Vidal

    Lecturer

    BioYosa Vidal is a Visiting Lecturer of Latin American Literature and Culture at Stanford Univerisity. She holds a Ph.D. from University of Oregon, and her teaching and research areas include Latinx and Latin American Studies, Gender Politics, Memory Studies, Comic Studies and Philosophy.

    From graphic humor to the testimonies of victims of state-sponsored violence, her research contributes to the field of Latin American Memory Studies by acknowledging the history of those who were defeated unheroically. Specifically, it engages with a gap in the critical scholarship on resistance, historical memory, and trauma in the Southern Cone, and integrates fictional and non-fictional texts, expanding the notion of documentation and memory.

    In her book project Memorias de la traición y traición de la memoria: Narrativas de la derrota en Chile y Argentina she argues that representations of betrayal, often evoking terrible forms of torture and suffering, allow a critique of a patriarchal and epic vision of the traumatic past in the Global South. Memories of Betrayal examines betrayal in three different genres: Marcia Merino’s testimony My Truth. Beyond Horror, I Accuse, (Chile, 1993); the graphic novel Perramus by Juan Sasturain and Alberto Breccia (Argentina, 1985); and Enrique Lihn’s play, Dialogues of the Disappeared (Chile, written between 1973 and 1976 and published in 2018).

    Vidal has co-edited El loco Estero with Miguel Saralegui, by Ediciones Cátedra (2021). As a fictional writer, she has published El Tarambana, (Tajamar 2013, Mármara 2016), Los multipatópodos (Overol 2017) and Vals chilote (Mantis 2022, Fondo de Cultura Económica 2022).


    Selected publications:

    “Ontología de la traición: El cuerpo torturado del traidor en Marcia Merino, Mi Verdad (1993)”. En Traidores, traidoras y rebeldes. Santiago: Colección IDEA, USACH. 2023

    “Patas de perro: Un aullido hacia el futuro”. En Pusilánimes y genuflexos: Asedios a la obra y figura de Carlos Droguett. Santiago: Carbon Libros. 2023

    “El cuerpo, la traición y el asco: estrategias cinematográficas en La flaca Alejandra, vidas y muertes de una mujer chilena de Carmen Castillo (1994)”. Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. vol. 19, no. 2, 2022, pp. 183–94

    “The Aesthetic and Political Economy of Betrayal in Oesterheld's Two Versions of The Eternaut I”. Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 5 no. 2, 2021, pp. 155-172

    “Subjetividad y política en las Memorias de Carlos Prats”. La violencia del lenguaje y la promesa de la escritura. Santiago: Metales Pesados. 2019

    “Encuentros y desencuentros de Oesterheld en Chile”. Revista Tebeosfera. (2016, ACYT) -3ª EPOCA.

    “Humor y Miedo: metáfora y elipsis en la representación del dictador”. Hispamérica (College Park), vol. 44, no. 130, 2015, pp. 107–14.

    “Imágenes de muertos: caricatura y rostro en la historieta política”. Dibujos que hablan. Santiago: Universidad de Santiago de Chile. 2017

  • Richard Vinograd

    Richard Vinograd

    Christensen Professor of Asian Art

    BioRichard Vinograd is the Christensen Fund Professor in Asian Art in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1989. Dr. Vinograd’s research interests include Chinese portraiture, landscape painting and cultural geography, urban cultural spaces, painting aesthetics and theory, art historiography, and inter-media studies. He is the author of Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); co-editor of New Understandings of Ming and Qing Painting (Shanghai: Shanghai Calligraphy Painting Publishing House, 1994); and co-author of Chinese Art & Culture (New York: Prentice Hall and Harry N. Abrams, 2001). He has published more than thirty journal articles, anthology chapters, conference papers, and catalogue essays on topics ranging from tenth-century landscape painting to contemporary transnational arts.