Rosario Hubert teaches Latin American Literature from the nineteenth century to the present, with a focus on Brazilian cultural history, travel writing, cultural geography and translation. She is working on a book manuscript entitled Disorientations. Latin American Fictions of East Asia, which discusses the epistemological and disciplinary problems of writing across cultural boundaries, and proposes a novel entryway into the study of East Asia and Latin America through the notions of cultural distance, fictional Sinology and critical exoticism.

Before coming to Trinity, she taught Portuguese, Latin American Studies and Literature courses at Harvard University and Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina). As someone educated in the liberal arts model, she values the invitation to think critically beyond one's field of specialty, so whether teaching literature, instructing a language or leading a tutorial, she presents concepts in terms of their social, political and linguistic significance. Her translations of Brazilian narrative (Clarice Lispector, Bernardo Carvalho, Nuno Ramos, Daniel Galera) and the more recent attempts into Chinese fiction (Eileen Chang) helped her develop an approach to world literature that sees linguistic diversity and translation as a fertile ground for comparison rather than a methodological obstacle. She has published and presented talks on the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz and Louis Antoine de Bougainville, and is preparing a future research project about the aesthetics of the inhospitable, particularly in relation to Antarctica and the Global South.

curriculum vitae

BOOKS

• Disoriented Disciplines. China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature (Northwestern University Press, FlashPoints Series, forthcoming Dec. 2023).

ARTICLES

• "Pañales rojos (o el archivo afectivo de una infancia revolucionaria)." Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 9.3 (2020) 34-55.
• "Pastoral nikkei: diáspora y frontera en la fotografía de Haruo Ohara." Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 87 (2018) 179-202.
• "World Literature, Diplomacy and War. Henri Michaux at the first South American PEN Congress, 1936." Journal of World Literature 1.4 (2017) 35-46.
• "Translation and Diplomacy. In Bachner, Andrea, et al. Approaches between Asia and Latin America: A Critical Renga." Verge-Studies in Global Asias 3.2 (2017) 55-95.
• Sinology on the Edge: Borges’s Reviews of Chinese Literature (1937-1942). Variaciones Borges 39 (2015) 81-101.
• "Geographical Distance and Cultural Knowledge: Writing about China in Nineteenth-Century Latin America." 452oF. Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada 13 (2015) 35-49.
• "Bougainville in the South Atlantic: the Ethnographic Encounter and the Journal of Navigation." Caderno de Letras 29 (2013) 182-203.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• "Primicias Antárticas. El rescate de Shackleton en la prensa porteña."  In Martín Bergel and Martín Albornoz. Momentos globales en la prensa porteña. Buenos Aires: Univ. Nacional de Quilmes, 2023. (forthcoming)
• "Chinoiseries." In Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte (Eds.) Cambridge Transitions in Latin American Literature (1870-1930). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 135-147.
• "The Orient, the Rim, and the World."  In Guillermina de Ferrari and Mariano Siskind (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms. London and New York: Routledge, 2022, 175-182.
• "The Diplomacy of Exoticism. Brazilian Accounts of the Global South." In Diana Sorensen (Ed) Territories and Trajectories: Cultures in Circulation. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 35-46.
• "Intellectual Cartographies of the Cold War: Argentinean Visitors to the People’s Republic of China 1952-1958." In Robert Tally (Ed.) Handbook of Literature and Space. London: Routledge, 2016. 337-348.
• "Rewriting Travel Literature: A Cosmopolitan Critique of Exoticism in Contemporary Latin American Fiction." In Ignacio López-Calvo (Ed.) Peripheral Transmodernities: South-South Intercultural Dialogues Between the Luso-Hispanic World and the Orient. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 42-61.

ESSAYS

• "Literatura y geopolítica. Las fugas de la poesía Tang."  El ojo mocho 9 (December 2021) 146-149.
  
• "El go y el azar. Tras los pasos de Hilario Fernández Long." Chopsuey Magazine 2 (2020) 37-41.
• "An Artist of the Floating World." ReVista. Harvard Review of Latin America 18.1 (2018) 12-17.
• "La revolución en escena. El cine de Xie Jin."  In Informe Escaleno (22 May 2016).
  
• "Memorias póstumas de Ernest Shackleton." In Informe Escaleno (22 November 2015).
• "Las geografi´as inestables de Jia Zhangke (o como habitar la China de hoy)." In Informe Escaleno (30 August 2015).
• "Cronistas de India (1927-1995): Paz, Neruda, Freyre y Corta´zar." Eterna Cadencia (18 June 2013).
• "Aprehender el placer de la escritura." Prologue to Un aprendizaje o el libro de los placeres, by Clarice Lispector Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2011.
• "Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Beijing, Shanghai." In Sala Grumo (12 September 2010).
• "Pan-Brasil: Brasil en el proyecto americanista de María Rosa Oliver." In Sala Grumo (1 May 2010).
• "Las cartas de Asia."  In El Interpretador - Literatura. arte y pensamiento. Buenos Aires (March-June 2005).
  

REVIEWS

• "Mariano Siskind Rumo ao cosmopolitismo da perda. Ensaio sobre o fim do mundo (Edições; Rio de Janeiro, 2020)," in CHUY. Revista de estudios literarios latinoamericanos 10 (2021) 172-178.