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INTERVIEWS Agustín Fernández Mallo, retratado en A Coruña, Xurxo Lobato (Getty Images) Agustín Fernández Mallo: «La memoria es una construcción presente del cuerpo que la experimenta». Entrevista para el Papel Literario del diario El Nacional. Caracas / Madrid, 2026. Agustín Fernández Mallo: «Memory is a construction made in the present inside the body experiencing it». Interview for World Literature Today, Oklahoma, 2026. Gustavo Valle Gustavo Valle: «La música en la escri
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INTERVIEWS
Here you can read some of my conversations with excellent writers published in international magazines: World Literature Today, Latin American Literature Today, Carátula, Trópico Absoluto, Papel Literario, and A Contracorriente: Photo: Gisela Heffes «Poetry Can Be Conceived as an Art of Disruption»: A Conversation with Gisela Heffes. World Literature Today. Oklahoma 2026 https://worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/interviews/poetry-can-be-conceived-art-disruption-conversation-gisel
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CREATIVE WRITING
Gottfried Mind, The Raphael of Cats The Fibonacci Scratch A message, a sound, a click. Assistant Professor in Spanish & Latin American Studies at the National University of… Ireland? My MLA Job List sent me a message that exploded into memory as I was drinking Guinness at home on a Friday, with another tornado headed for Oklahoma. Fridays and tornadoes are the perfect team, energizing me to find a new job. I am a professor who, due to the crisis, emigrated from Venezuela, whe
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TRANSLATION COLLECTIVE
Krina Ber Krina Ber y los múltiples trazos de sus historias. Lámina 1: En esta breve presentación, quisiera simplemente utilizar mi valiosa experiencia como traductora de Krina Ber, pues me gustaría dialogar sobre múltiples aspectos de su vida, aunque hoy no tengo tiempo suficiente para compartir muchos de ellos con ustedes. Así que me he decidido a tejer estos múltiples trazos de sus historias a partir de todo lo que compartimos en los últimos años y de los rastros que queda
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS & RESEARCH
Claudia Cavallin Dr. Claudia Cavallin is a Professor at the Department of Languages and Literatures at Oklahoma State University . She holds a degree in Social Communication with a focus on Humanistic Development, a Master of Science in Latin American and Caribbean Literature, and a Ph.D. in Spanish. She is one of the 2026 Honoree professors. a t Oklahoma State University. Each spring, the OSU Library honors OSU employees who have authored or co-authored a book. As an OSU a
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JOURNALISM and LITERATURE
PHILANTHROPETE: A Journey Through Displacement and Identity This project offers a valuable contribution to our understanding of who we are and how displacement shapes women's identity and social positioning in Latin American contexts. This year, it's open at the OSU Foundation . PhilanthroPete is Oklahoma State University's official charitable giving platform for crowdfunding projects on all OSU campuses! Explore PhilanthroPete Stories from Venezuelan Migrant Women (Re)pensa
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MIGRATION AUTHORS AND THEMES
Migration is not just about the movement of bodies but about the migration of souls, languages, and memories. What is it about the literary themes of migration that captures such complexity? How do we weave the personal and the political into a tapestry that speaks across cultures and generations? Literary migration Advers and writers embark on this journey together, peeling back the layers of her narratives, exploring the motifs that resonate deeply with anyone who has ever
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BOOK REVIEWS
Metales Pesados Nathalie Bouzaglo & Javier Guerrero (eds.) Drag Kings: Arqueología crítica de masculinidades espectaculares en Latinx América. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Metales Pesados. 2025. 430 páginas. Trópico Absoluto , Berlín 2026. En esta reseña, Claudia Cavallin aborda un proyecto que desestabiliza las nociones tradicionales de género en la región. A través de ensayos, imágenes y archivos, el libro propone una lectura crítica de la masculinidad desde el performance
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CONFERENCES
The Program Committee has approved the session «Las ficciones desplazadas de Krina Ber» into the Track Literature and Culture of the LASA2026 Congress: Republic and Revolution, taking place May 26–30, 2026, in Paris, France, at the Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center. Presenter(s): Session Organizer: Raquel Rivas Rojas, The University of Edinburgh Chair: Raquel Rivas Rojas, The University of Edinburgh Discussant: Claudia Cavallin, Universidad Simón Bolívar /
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TRANSLATIONS
Photo: Gisela Heffes, «Visualizing Loss in Latin America» « Poetry can be conceived as an art of disruption. » A Conversation with Gisela Heffes. Translated by Claudia Cavallin. World Literature Today. Oklahoma, 2026. Photo: Jorge Volpi, «La invención de todas las cosas» « Fictions are concentrated in the library nurtured by AI: » A Conversation with Jorge Volpi. Translated by Claudia Cavallin. World Literature Today. Oklahoma, 2025. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blo
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EDITORIAL WORK & BOOKS
BOOKS « Patrias Imaginadas » . En: Conceptos clave para la literatura venezolana actual. Ediciones Makunaima. 2025 https://www.edicoesmakunaima.com.br/2025/10/08/conceptos-clave-para-los-estudios-de-la-literatura-venezolana-actual/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNTnfBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFMbXA1ZlQ3SDRnMjBVbUE2AR4slQsK77xlTyIKw9kKNs7tZeRb397d6LhdRZQI9_wDmaRPhm4r12TwBmZBZw_aem_8XS5sKQryTwSADNguxkIiw « Crónicas disidentes: La memoria colectiva que transgrede la censura en Venezuela » . En
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MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
Profesores que emigraron: qué dejaron, qué encontraron (1/4) Papel Literario de El Nacional Claudia Cavallin Como descendiente de una familia inmigrante italiana, nacida en Venezuela, y madre de un par de valiosos estudiantes que se arraigan al país donde no nacieron, los Estados Unidos, he encontrado un equilibrio en ese imborrable andar entre tres nacionalidades, tres idiomas, tres identidades aferradas a la memoria ancestral. Por quinta vez, soy profesora en una universida
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SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
LASA 2025 Venezuelan Studies. Latin American Studies Association Travel Grant for LASA2025 , XLIII International Congress , Poner el cuerpo en Latinx América San Francisco 2025. 1) "Cuerpos sin vida e identidades compartidas en la migración venezolana". https://members.lasaweb.org/prot/congress-papers/Current/lasa2025/#C The committee awarded two (02) travel grants to Section members who will present a paper at the Bogotá conference. 1) “El mapa como representación móvil de
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ESSAYS
Margo Glantz y el permanente giro de las letras. Cuadernos Fronterizos , Dossier especial/ 6 de mayo de 2024. México. https://erevistas.uacj.mx/ojs/index.php/cuadfront/article/view/6009 Las crónicas como relatos de resistencia política en Venezuela. Trópico Absoluto . Revista de crítica, Pensamiento e Ideas. Berlín. Julio 2022. https://tropicoabsoluto.com/2022/07/01/las-cronicas-como-relatos-de-resistencia-politica-en-venezuela/ Imagen: Vasco Szinetar. De la serie Caracas
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Claudia Cavallin is a regular contributor to the newspaper El Nacional (Papel Literario) and the magazines Carátula, Latin American Literature Today, World Literature Today, and Trópico Absoluto. Her work has also appeared in Cuadernos Fronterizos and Efecto Cocuyo.
She was the director of the academic journal Estudios. Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales (Venezuela). She continues her investigation of literature and migration, which define the production and dissemination of contemporary translations of Latin American literature.
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