Vanessa Gubbins

Vanessa Gubbins is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Romance Studies. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University. She writes and teaches about Latin American literature of the Andean Region and the Southern Cone, poetics and poetologies, critical theory and critical theory in the Global South, Andean and European philosophies, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminist theories, and Third Cinema. Prof. Gubbins is currently working on a project on critical mediums. Her current book project, The Poem and Social Form: Making a People out of a Poem in Peru and Germany, is part of this larger work. In this book, she studies how the poem can help us both critique dominant forms of societal relations, as well as conceive alternative ones. To do so, she follows a series of nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American and German poets who, during moments of crisis, turned to poems for weapons to critique the nation-state and regenerate democratic social bonds.