Verónica Garibotto
John D. Stephens Distinguished Professor in Latin American Studies
Dey Hall 226
vgarib@unc.edu
Verónica Garibotto is John D. Stephens Distinguished Professor in Latin American Studies in the Department of Romance Studies. She holds an MA and a PhD in Hispanic Literatures from the University of Pittsburgh and a Licenciatura en Letras from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Verónica’s research focuses on nineteenth- to twenty-first century Latin American literary, filmic, and cultural studies. Her first book, Crisis y reemergencia (Purdue UP, 2015), explores the crisis of nineteenth-century foundational ideologies and its manifestation in the contemporary literatures of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Her second book, Rethinking Testimonial Cinema (Indiana UP, 2019), analyzes how first-person films have turned the Argentine dictatorship into an iconic event and develops a framework for reading the cinematic representation of political conflicts over time. An award from the Ministerio de la Cultura de la Nación Argentina funded the publication of a version in Spanish: Semiótica y afecto: el cine testimonial en la posdictadura (Imago Mundi, 2021). Verónica has co-edited two books: The Latin American Road Movie (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, with Jorge Pérez) and Psychoanalysis as Social and Political Discourse in Latin America and the Caribbean (Routledge, 2022, with Paola Bohórquez). She is finalizing a new book, The Public Couch: Psychoanalysis and Intersectionality in Argentina, that examines the Argentine psychoanalytic culture’s paradoxical effects on public life. The chapters explore the role of psychoanalysis in gentrification, the links between psychoanalysis and the creation of LGBTQIA+ categories of identity, and psychoanalytic discourses of reproductive rights. Her next book project centers on the tensions between reproductive rights and reproductive justice in the Americas (Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, and the United States).
