Rosario Hubert works on the crossover of world literature, geography, and the visual arts. Her book Disoriented Disciplines. China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature (2023, Northwestern University Press, FlashPoints Series) is an invitation to think on the edges, surfaces, and turns of the literary artifact when it crosses cultural boundaries. The book was recipient of the ACLA Helen Tartar First book subvention award and was funded by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently working on new project about poetics of the inhospitable and polar modernity.
 
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, creative writing 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. Before coming to Trinity, she taught Portuguese, Latin American Studies and Literature courses at Harvard University and Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina). She has published and presented talks on the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz and Louis Antoine de Bougainville, among others.

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