https://www.marcelocarosi.com/digital daily 0.75 2020-10-04 https://www.marcelocarosi.com/digital/blog-post-four-794xp monthly 0.5 2020-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f669028dcca0c373729e80f/1601263286799-F1FT4WBV0RH6HBZQCNEY/Screen+Shot+2020-09-27+at+11.21.00+PM.png Digital Projects - Bambalinas Project https://www.marcelocarosi.com/digital/blog-post-three-abgh4 monthly 0.5 2020-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f669028dcca0c373729e80f/1601262951582-CP4PY2V9DPLQHG7OOY1O/Screen+Shot+2020-09-26+at+10.55.05+PM.png Digital Projects - Encuentros https://www.marcelocarosi.com/home daily 1.0 2022-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f669028dcca0c373729e80f/1600557397023-ETUTVCL29D5OXUSE927T/Screenshot_20200919-182734.png Home - Research Working at the forefront of Latin American gender studies, my research examines contemporary cultural production on care. My dissertation Dangerous Maids: The Politics of Care in Neoliberal Latin America traces unexpected affinities between the figure of the maid and the crisis of care exacerbated by neoliberal policies. Focusing on cinema and literary fiction across the Americas, my project illuminates how reciprocity, attentiveness, mourning, and desire, reshape the present despite vapid consumption, state terror, forced migration, and environmental catastrophes. Under these contexts, Dangerous Maids analyzes survival strategies when care becomes both a sign and a fix to the social crisis as seen in the cultural production in the region. My second project offers a critical survey of contemporary representations of fatherhood. It argues that popular representations of paternal authority have become increasingly important to the cultural legitimization of male power given neoliberal politics and the resulting dispossession of large sections of the population. It analyses male care at a time when the traditional conception of the family has been challenged by a number of factors, such as chronic unemployment, forced migration, the environmental crisis, and the illicit drug trade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f669028dcca0c373729e80f/1601224395575-JD772A5TAXHAJ8GI6VLE/Screen+Shot+2020-09-26+at+10.53.51+PM.png Home - Teaching In my classes, knowledge is built on empathy and inclusion, creating ways to relate the classroom to other spaces of learning such as museums, the street, or the home. In the last eight years, I have taught and designed elementary, intermediate, and advanced Spanish classes, in addition to literature and cultural content classes in both English and Spanish, where I give special emphasis to multiple perspectives and histories so as to make visible the underlying implications of knowledge and language formation, thereby exposing students to the importance of successfully engaging in a diverse society. My courses have won multiple development grants that appreciate my approaches to connecting creativity, aesthetic discernment, and disciplinary practice with social and cultural engagement. I consider that fostering ethical and informed citizenship is key to inviting students to question established structures, such as gender or racial hierarchies that they may have a role in upholding. This is why I incorporate the theory and practice of social change into my classes by using the lens of engaged scholarship and social innovation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f669028dcca0c373729e80f/1601831821899-FTCXRNPC2TFX45EHCNG6/Screen+Shot+2020-10-04+at+1.18.05+PM.png Home - Mentoring In addition to working within my own field, I have sought to foster exchange with students in other departments. At Hamilton I organized, among other events, the “Latin American Short-Film Festival” and, while at NYU, I co-organized, with Africana Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the successful conference “#Black Lives Matter in Latin America.” I have also regularly participated in NYU’s mentorship program, where I give academic advice and support to a group of underrepresented M.A. and Ph.D. students across different colleges, discussing with them their concerns as students of color. Also, In view of the current refuge crisis, I worked closely with students who were interested in declaring a Spanish major at Hamilton, serving as a mentor to help them design a research project on the refugee community in Utica that would expand their perspective in the field. By assessing interviews they conducted in the refugee center, I led students to combine their language skills with the process of learning about the immigrant experience through their interactions and this way contextualize how gender, race, ethnicity, labor, sexuality come together in the construction of (non)citizenship. https://www.marcelocarosi.com/courses daily 0.75 2020-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f669028dcca0c373729e80f/1601175464913-1WKHZ74U55HZ3PHQZDP2/Screen+Shot+2020-09-26+at+10.58.04+PM.png Courses - Representing Domestic Labor in Latin America Los sirvientes, mucamos, mayordomos, amas de leche, niñeras, cocineros, choferes suelen integrar ese grupo de seres silenciosos que habitan los rincones de las casas burguesas. Pero, si se les da voz, se vuelven traicioneros, chismosos, pueden, de un momento a otro, caer en la prostitución, robar, incluso matar: son, en otras palabras, ese pueblo peligroso que necesita ser disciplinado. Dicho esto, para muchos movimientos culturales latinoamericanos el trabajador doméstico también sirvió para explorar nuevas subjetividades cuando, por ejemplo, la migración interna o internacional cambiaba el perfil de la sociedad. Vistos desde uno u otro ángulo, estos personajes han sido y son centrales para interrogar las formas en las que el pueblo latinoamericano emerge en la cultura. El propósito del curso es explorar las representaciones del trabajo doméstico y abrir un espacio de debate y análisis interdisciplinario que indague la labor doméstica en la cultura como el lugar en el que no solo se da cuenta de las formas de opresión, por lo general, sobre la mujer, sino también en el que se tensan las nociones de lo femenino, se contamina la lengua nacional, se reordenan las jerarquías de ciudadanías post-esclavistas, se autoriza y legitima la voz del intelectual o se exploran las crisis sociales en la era neoliberal. De allí que sondearemos con rigor crítico las representaciones del trabajo doméstico a partir de medidos del s. 19 en países como la Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, México y Perú con la intención de trazar puntos de encuentros como de discrepancias y lograr un devenir histórico y cultural hasta nuestros días. En particular, pondremos énfasis en el estudio de la construcción de jerarquías de género, sexualidades, deseo y raza. Photo credit: Grupo Maskaratores https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f669028dcca0c373729e80f/1601174169422-QEZL374VNLMNAOMYP0ME/Las+Dos+Fridas+%281989%29+Fotograf%C3%ADa+de+Pedro+Marinello Courses - Culture, Illness, and Radical Care in Latin America Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f669028dcca0c373729e80f/1601174739962-E1CHMAY3OZ7FANM9ZHYQ/Contemporary+Latin+America Courses - Contemporary Latin American Literature This course appreciates the deep political meaning of literature, that is to say, as a field of struggling forces where the textual condensation shows all kinds of social contradictions. Therefore, we approach our texts as a transforming energy through which new social beings prevails against globalization. In this way, a central objective will be to investigate the way in which this new global sensitivity affects the very conception of local subjectivities. Through close readings of short novels published in the past 12 years, we will consider the questions that arise when neoliberalism exacerbates struggles for social justice, such as: How does recent fiction reimagine family and kinship? How do they narrate migrant children, state terror, and racism? How do illnesses articulate ideas on disposable populations? How does economic crisis herald new kinds of (racial) citizenships that nationalistic projects have ignored? We seek to elucidate the construction of subjectivities by approaching the narrative experience through theoretical categories such as language, race, ethnicity, gender, age, etc., having in mind that Latin America far from being a homogeneous region condenses a multiplicity of diverse cultural histories, even within national borders. https://www.marcelocarosi.com/donate daily 0.75 2025-05-09