The Global Humanities Initiative co-hosts a invited talk by Professor Rosario Hubert titled Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature.

On February 10, 2025, MIT’s Comparative Global Humanities initiative (GHI) hosted a invited talk by Professor Rosario Hubert titled Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature. Co-hosted with the MIT Global Mediations Lab, Literature at MIT, and MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing, the event featured Professor Koichi Hagimoto (Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Wellesley College) as a discussant.

Rosario Hubert is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Trinity College, where she works on the crossover of world literature, geography, and the visual arts. Her book Disoriented Disciplines. China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature (2023, Northwestern University Press, FlashPoints Series) was recipient of the ACLA Helen Tartar First book subvention award and was funded by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently working on new project about poetics of the inhospitable and polar modernity.

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