COMING SOON
- Claudia Cavallin
- 23 hours ago
- 2 min read
LITERATURE SEMINAR SERIES
Seminario de escritoras venezolanas 2026 en la Universidad de Los Andes. Un valioso homenaje a la escritora con quien tuve el placer de conversar y de traducir junto a #ColaboratorioÁvila: Krina Ber. El evento será moderado por Adriana Cabrera; allí compartiremos sus valiosos trabajos y experiencias con Rubi Guerra y Liliana Lara.
22 de abril de 2026.
INTERVIEWS
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: «La música en la escritura es un gran ordenador de la experiencia». Entrevista para Trópico Absoluto. Berlín, 2026.
Eva Feld: «Para tergiversar la historia es necesario conocerla a fondo». Entrevista para el Papel Literario del diario El Nacional. Caracas / Madrid, 2026.
CONFERENCES
The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) has approved my participation in two panels at the upcoming conference in Paris. In both panels, I will discuss the Venezuelan writer Krina Ber and her compelling stories about what it means to live and move through diverse cities with a malleable identity, conveyed through words, maps, streets, and drawings. My presentation, titled Krina Ber and the Pleasure of Walking the Imagined Streets in the Pages of a Book, is in the Literature and Culture track of the LASA2026 Congress: Republic and Revolution, Paris, May 26 - 30.
BOOK CHAPTER
Claudia Cavallin Calanche, Parallel Worlds Connecting Multiple Identities: Transgender Existence in Camila Sosa Villada's Bad Girls. «The Handbook of Trans Science Fictions» (co-edited with Sabine R. Sharp). Liverpool University Press 2026.
Bad Girls (2022) by Camila Sosa Villada describes a diverse family construction that restructures the linearity of existence connected with parallel worlds that unite multiple identities: Two genders in the same body; two spaces—the park and the house—as the only route of traveling from reality to Science Fiction, and two ways of using the identity of their bodies, changing from day to night. In line with the gender theory of Judith Butler, Virginie Despentes, and Cecilia Gentili, the discussion of gender in this novel is situated in a literary space where categories are shaped by factors such as class, ethnicity, and sexuality. Here, a parallel world is constructed through resistance to the cultural imposition of gender identities. In this novel, to be trans is to live in several temporal and spatial dimensions, where identity connects through the feelings of a little boy named 'Twinkle Eyes,' who can transgress all borders and spaces.
