COMING SOON

INTERVIEWS

Jorge Carrion

Jorge Carrión: «El futuro se entreteje desde una voz femenina». Entrevista para el Papel Literario del diario El Nacional. Caracas / Madrid, 2026.

Gisela Heffes

Gisela Heffes: «La literatura latinoamericana actual subraya fragmentariedad, inequidad y precariedad». Entrevista para el Papel Literario del diario El Nacional. Caracas / Madrid, 2026.

Edinburgh International Book Festival

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.

CONFERENCE

Krina Ber, en "Leamos cuentos y crónicas"

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.

https://lasaweb.org/en/lasa2026/

REVIEW

Ediciones 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.

BOOK CHAPTER

Claudia Cavallin Calanche, Parallel Worlds Connecting Multiple Identities: Transgender Existence in Camila Sosa Villada's Bad Girls. «The Liverpool Handbook of Trans Literature» (co-edited with Douglas Vakoch). Liverpool Press 2026.

Bad Grils (2022)

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. Following 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.