Thursday, October 26, 2006

Contact: Nicholas Lucero, 706/542-1716, nlucero@uga.edu

Gonzalo Aguilar to lecture at UGA Oct. 31

Athens, Ga. – Gonzalo Aguilar, a researcher at the National Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina and faculty member at Facultad de Filosofía y Letras and Facultad de Ciencias Sociales at the University of Buenos Aires, will deliver a lecture at the University of Georgia’s Latino and Caribbean Studies Institute (LACSI) on Tuesday, Oct. 31, at 11 a.m.

Aguilar will present the lecture, titled “In the White Forest: The Veiled Dialogue Between Helio Oiticia and Augusto and Haroldo de Campos,” in Spanish; he will take questions from the audience in both Spanish and Portuguese.

The event, which is open to the public, is sponsored by LACSI and UGA’s department of romance languages; it will be held at LACSI’s headquarters at 290 S. Hull Street.

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; 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).

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