Veronica Garibotto

Veronica Garibotto
  • Professor
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies

Contact Info

Wescoe Hall, room #2614

Biography —

Verónica Garibotto received her "Licenciatura en Letras" from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and her MA and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. Before joining KU, she taught at Queen's University in Canada. Her research addresses the links among culture (literature and film), history, and politics in 19th to 21st-century Latin America, especially in the Southern Cone. She is particularly interested in how historicity and ideology intersect with culture and in theoretical perspectives that combine a close textual analysis with a broader political reading. Garibotto's first book Crisis y reemergencia: el siglo XIX en la ficción contemporánea de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (Purdue University Press, 2015) explores the crisis of the nineteenth century as a discursive and ideological formation after the 1990s and its manifestations in literary fiction. Her second book, Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Post-Dictatorship Argentina: Beyond Memory Fatigue (Indiana University Press, 2019) re-examines traditional approaches to testimonial cinema (trauma theory and subaltern studies), proposes an alternative approach at the intersection of semiotics and theories of affect, and analyzes Argentine post-dictatorship testimonial films produced between 1983 and 2016 from the latter standpoint. She has co-edited with Jorge Pérez The Latin American Road Movie (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and has published articles on the contemporary representation of history in journals such as Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Latin American Research Review, Revista Iberoamericana, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Hispanic Research Journal, Latin American Literary Review, and A contracorriente. Garibotto is now working on a new single-authored book, Paradoxical Ideologies: an Intersectional Examination of Argentine Psychoanalytic Culture, that explores the links between psychoanalysis and the creation of LGBTQIA+ categories of identity, the role of psychoanalysis in gentrification, and the racialized discourses of psychoanalytic feminism. She is also co-editing with Paola Bohórquez , the volume Psychoanalysis as Social and Political Discourse in Latin America. Garibotto has received the Vice Chancellor for Research Book Publication Award for Crisis y reemergencia, the 2014 Junior Faculty Teaching Award from the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, the 2015-2018 Cramer Root Professorship for excellence in research and teaching, and a Hall Center Residential Fellowship for the Spring 2017. Graduate students working with her are researching topics such as representations of Nazism in Mexican and Argentine literature, identity and memory in indigenous film, identity and spatial displacements in Latin American travel narratives, and Argentine popular culture.

Research —

Research interests:

  • 19th - 21st century Latin American literature and film
  • Southern Cone culture, history, and politics
  • cultural and literary theory
  • film theory
  • cultural Marxism
  • post-colonial and subaltern studies
  • theories of affect
  • semiotics
  • critical perspectives on trauma theory, memory studies, and psychoanalysis
  • intersectionality.

Selected Publications —

Garibotto, Verónica. Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Post-Dictatorship Argentina:Beyond Memory Fatigue. Indiana University Press, 2019.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Movilidad y Contra-Hegemonía En El Cine Documental Argentino de Los Noventa.” Poéticas Del Desplazamiento En La Cultura Visual y Narrativas Actuales. Eds. Tatiana Navallo and Jeffrey Cedeño Mark., 2018, pp. 20–39.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Sentimiento Codificado: Ideologías Del Miedo En El Cine Argentino de La Posdictadura.” Narrativas Del Miedo: Terror En La Literatura y Cinema Latinoamericanos Del Siglo XX y XXI. Eds. Marco Ramírez, Karem Langer, and David Rozotto. , Peter Lang, 2018, pp. 61–77.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Pitfalls of Trauma: Revisiting Post-Dictatorship Cinema from a Semiotic Standpoint.” Latin American Research Review, vol. 52, no. 3, 2017, pp. 654–67.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Lecturas al Límite: Tensiones Ideológicas En La Ficción Histórica de La Editorial Sudamericana.” Latin American Literary Review, vol. 85, no. 43, 2016, pp. 31–53.

Garibotto, Verónica, and Jorge Pérez. Reconfiguring Precarious Landscapes: The Road Movie in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Garibotto, Verónica, and Jorge Pérez. The Latin American Road Movie. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Garibotto, Verónica. Crisis y Reemergencia: El Siglo XIX En La Ficción Contemporánea de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (1980-2001). Purdue University Press, 2015.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Private Narratives and Infant Views: Iconizing 1970s Militancy in Contemporary Argentine Cinema.” Hispanic Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 3, May 2015, pp. 257–72.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Staging Politics and Activism in the Kirchner Era: Documentary and Fiction in El Estudiante.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, Sept. 2014, pp. 115–32.

Garibotto, Verónica. Confluencia, vol. 30, no. 1, 2014, pp. 192–93.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Revolution, Defeat, and Utopia: Artigas and the New Left in Uruguayan Theatre.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 47, no. 1, 2013.

Garibotto, Verónica. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 46, no. 1, Mar. 2012, p. 160.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Iconic Fictions: Narrating Recent Argentine History in Post-2000 Second-Generation Films.” Studies in Hispanic Cinemas , vol. 8, no. 2, 2012, pp. 175–87.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Temporalidad e Historia: Hacia Una Reformulación Del Marco Interpretativo Del Testimonio Posdictatorial.” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana , vol. 39, no. 2, Oct. 2010, pp. 99–114.

Garibotto, Verónica, and Antonio Gómez. “Historical Stasis: Solanas and the Restoration of Political Film after the 2001 Argentine Crisis.” Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, vol. 6, no. 2, 2010, pp. 125–38.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Releo Mis Papeles Del Pasado Para Escribir Mi Romance Del Porvenir’: Respiración Artificial y El Programa de Refundación Del Campo Cultural Argentino.” Revista Iberoamericana, vol. 75, no. 226, 2009, pp. 229–42.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Un Epitafio En El Desierto: Poesía y Revolución En Roberto Bolaño.” Bolaño Salvaje, edited by Gustavo Faverón Patriau and Edmundo Paz Soldán , Candaya, 2008, pp. 163–89.

Garibotto, Verónica, and Antonio Gómez. “Más Allá Del ‘Formato Memoria’: La Repostulación Del Imaginario Posdictatorial En El Documental Los Rubios de Albertina Carri.” A Contracorriente , vol. 3, no. 2, 2006, pp. 107–26.

Garibotto, Verónica, editor. “Nuevas Narrativas Urbanas.” Osamayor, vol. 17, 2006.

Garibotto, Verónica. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, vol. 59, no. 30, 2004, pp. 332–34.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Bloch-Lukács: Lecturas Del Fausto.” György Lukács: Pensamiento Vivido, edited by Miguel Vedda, Centro de Investigación y Documentación de la Cultura de Izquierda en Argentina, 2002, pp. 200–25.

Wolckowicz, Anna. “El Joven Bloch y El Simbolismo Literario.” Fichas de Cátedra, Secretaría de Publicaciones, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2002.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Ángel Rama- Mario Vargas Llosa: Detrás de La Polémica.” Actas Del Congreso Internacional “La Argumentación,” EUDEBA, 2002, pp. 896–911.

Garibotto, Verónica. “Mansilla: La Sangre y La Escritura Del Rosismo.” Actas de Las Jornadas de Teoría Literaria, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, 2001, pp. 35–59.

Selected Presentations —

Garibotto, V. (10/31/2017). “Desplazamientos queer: la descentralización de la memoria en el documental performativo”. The Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures 2017. St Louis

Awards & Honors —

Jessie Marie Senor Cramer & Ann Cramer Root Professorship for Excellence in Research and Teaching, University of Kansas (2015-2018)

University of Kansas

2015 - 2018

Hall Center for the Humanities Residential Fellowship

Hall Center, University of Kansas

2017

International Programs Research Fund

Office of International Programs

2017

Sabbatical leave

University of Kansas

2016

2014 CLASP Junior Faculty Teaching Award,

Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs

2014

Jessie Marie Senor Cramer & Ann Cramer Root Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching

University of Kansas

2013

Vice Chancellor for Research Book Publication Award

University of Kansas

2013