Junior Fellows

José Ricardo Castellón holds a PhD in History from Universidad Pablo de Olavide at Sevilla, (Spain, 2013), and a PhD in Philosophy (History) from UzK (2018). He has been a lecturer, curriculum developer, and consultant in communication and design. He is a DAAD alumnus, member and Secretary of the Salvadoran Academy of History and has been a lecturer and guest researcher at the Historical Institute of the UzK since 2018.

His research focuses on migrations (UNICEF award 2008), family and mobility in Central America, and the general social history of Latin America. He also works on food culture and celebrations, daily life, and material culture.

Main Discipline: History

Selected publications:
Castellón, José Ricardo (2019): Secretos de familia. La familia y su movilidad en El Salvador colonial, El Salvador: UCA Editores.
Castellón, José Ricardo (2014): Fiestas, vida y comida en el interior del reino de Guatemala: San Salvador y Sonsonate, siglo XVIII , San Salvador: Universidad Don Bosco.
Castellón, José Ricardo (2018): “Movilidad y familia en el Pacífico Centroamericano. San Salvador y Sonsonate en el siglo XVIII”, in: Cuadernos Inter.c.a.mbio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe, 15, 1.
Castellón, José Ricardo; Méndez de Castellón, Georgina Magali (2018): “Haciendo memoria. Construir desde el olvido en El Salvador 25 años después de la firma de los acuerdos de paz“, in: Martínez, Carmen González (ed.), Transiciones políticas contemporáneas: singularidades nacionales de un fenómeno global, Fondo de Cultura Económica de España.

Juliana Streva holds a PhD in Human Rights from FU Berlin (Germany) and a Master’s degree in Theory of State and Constitutional Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. She was granted a Visiting Fellowship at Brown University (USA) and Ha-Universita ha-Ivrit bi-Yerushalayim (Israel).

Her critical interdisciplinary work is particularly engaged with the interplay of corporality, colonial structures of violence (encompassing politics, law, economy, ecology, ontology, and epistemology), intersectional feminisms and peripheral
insurgences. Her most recent works include the experimentaldocumentary film ‘Women in Movement’ (2020), contributions to the books ‘Corporeidades Afrodiaspóricas’ (2020), ‘Materializing Feminism’ (2019), and the book ‘Corpo, Raça, Poder’ (2018).

Main Discipline: Law

Selected publications:
Streva, Juliana (2020): “Corp(o)ralidade fanoniana: legado colonial & insurgências anti-racistas”, in: Tavares, Julio Cesar de Souza (ed.), Corporalidades afrodiaspóricas, Curitiba: Appris Editora.

Streva, Juliana (2018): Corpo, raça, poder: extermínio negro no Brasil. uma leitura crítica, decolonial e foucaultiana, Rio de Janeiro: Multifoco.

Streva, Juliana (2018): “Identitätspolitik postkolonial: Zur Debatte um Identitätspolitik in Lateinamerika”, in: Beier, Friederike (ed.), Materializing Feminism. Positionierungen zu Ökonomie, Staat und Identität, Münster: Unrast Verlag.

Streva, Juliana (2017): “A multidão no corpo e a multidão de corpos: um embate dos conceitos de povo e multidão, e consenso e dissenso à luz dos escritos de Hobbes e Spinoza”, in: Becker, Rafael (ed.), Spinoza e nós. Volume: Spinoza, a guerra e a paz, Rio de Janeiro: Ed. PUC-Rio.

Léa Tosold holds an MA in Literature, Philosophy and Political Science (Universität Wien, Austria), as well as in Political Philosophy (University of York), and a PhD in Political Science (USP). She was the co-founder of the Gender and Politics Studies Group (Gepô-USP) and is a member of the Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Studies Intervention Collective (Gira), a researcher of the Nexos Research Network (Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil) and the Political Theory Study Group (Getepol/Universidade Estadual de Londrina).

Her main interest lies in feminist anti-racist epistemologies. Currently, she is working on memory politics and its global-local connections through intimate ethnographies and collective territorialities.

Main Discipline: Political Science

Selected publications:

Tosold, Léa (2018): Autodeterminação em três movimentos: a politização de diferenças sob a perspectiva da (des)naturalização da violência, PhD Thesis, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Tosold, Léa (2017): “Rompendo com a violência institucionalizada: reflexões sobre o corpo enquanto locus analítico”, in: Machado, Carlos; Marques, Danusa; Tavares, Francisco Mata Machado; Trindade, Thiago (eds.), Democracia e desigualdade:
registros críticos, Brasília: Zouk.

Tosold, Léa (2016): “Incluir diferenças (re)produzindo desigualdades? Os limites da democracia deliberativa habermasiana através de um olhar crítico sobre a obra de Iris Marion Young”, in: Pinzani, Alessandro; Schmidt, Rainer (eds.), Um pensamento interdisciplinar: ensaios sobre Habermas, 1, Florianópolis: Nefiponline.

Tosold, Léa (2012): “Do problema do essencialismo a outra maneira de fazer política”, in: Biroli, Flávia; Miguel, Luis Felipe (eds.), Teoria política e feminismo: abordagens brasileiras, 1, Vinhedo: Editora Horizonte, 1-290.

Jorge Estrada holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the FU Berlin and a B.A. in Hispanic Literatures from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is the author of the monograph Experiencing Ethics with Sterne and Musil (2019), as well as of various papers on Roberto Bolaño’s novels. His current projects include a transareal approach to literary transfer, a comparative study on sense effects with a focus on twentieth century Latin American literature, and a monograph on Bolaño’s critique of Humanism and the Enlightenment. His research draws from affect theory, ethical criticism, critical theory, and literary theory.

Abstract: A Ruthless Conviviality in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. Dystopic Pluralities

This project focuses on the practices that foster belonging and allow interactions to turn into collaborating communities in Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666 (2004). As migrants, political exiles, minor poets, or institutionally sanctioned intellectuals, Bolaño’s characters must constantly negotiate their cultural differences, find leeway in power relations, use the imaginaries available to them, and reflect on their roles as producers, gatekeepers or marginal agents in a cultural and social setting. In this process, the same mechanism that can lay the grounds for solidarity can also create power groups and lead to violence. By examining these varying representations of living together, the project aims to reflect on a kind of plurality defined by dispossession and constant negotiation in asymmetrical positions of power.

Main discipline: Literary Studies

Selected publications:

• Estrada, Jorge (2019): Experiencing Ethics with Sterne and Musil. A Relentless Character Construction [Spectrum literaturwissenschaft/ spectrum literature 67], Boston: De Gruyter.

• Estrada, Jorge (2021a): “Bolaño con Deleuze. El hipo como enfermedad de la historia en Monsieur Pain“, in: Badebec, 10, 20, 106–137.

• Estrada, Jorge (2021b): “De la frente al vientre. Ética violenta e inmanente en ‘El Ojo Silva’ de Roberto Bolaño”, in: Aisthesis, [forthcoming].

• Estrada, Jorge (2021c): “Violencia como afecto y cámara de resonancia intertextual en ‘El Ojo Silva’ de Roberto Bolaño”, in: Mandolessi, Silvana; Dhondt, Reindert and Zicart, Martín (eds.), Afectos y violencia en la cultura hispanoamericana [forthcoming], collection “Nexos y diferencias” Iberoamericana/Vervuert.

• Estrada, Jorge and Yurgel, Caio (2021): “A Liquid Episteme: Roberto Bolaño, Fictional Biographies, and the Enlightenment”, in: Hispanic Review, [forthcoming].

Jerónimo Pinedo is a Social Sciences graduate (Licenciatura and Magister) from the UNLP. He obtained his doctoral degree in Social Sciences from the UNGS (National University of General Sarmiento) and the Institute of Economic and Social Development (IDES). He is Adjunct Professor in the field of analysis of Argentinian society in the Sociology Department of the Faculty for Humanities and Educational Sciences of the UNLP. Additionally, he is a member of the research staff of CISH-IdIHCS-FaHCE group (Centre of Socio-historical Research, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Research) of the same university. He is a specialist in the areas recent Argentinan history, mass culture (clases populares), collective movements, cultural studies, and academic community outreach. Currently, he is actively involved in the UNLP’s outreach activities in an organising capacity.

Project: Moral economies and precarious conviviality in two Latin-American metropolitan areas during the COVID-19 Pandemic*

Abstract:

This project investigates the precarious structures of conviviality and the practical strategies of the working classes (clases populares) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on the daily life and collective initiatives of the inhabitants of two urban peripheries, specifically on four aspects: health, living space, labour, and access to food. What kind of effects did the pandemic have on these aspects of life? What types of interactions, practical knowledge, and tools for conviviality were brought into play to carry on living? What conflicts, transformations, inventions, and ways of adapting are emerging in the conviviality of the metropolitan periphery in the face of the spreading virus, public policy to combat its proliferation, and the pandemic’s devastating and multifaceted consequences for individual and collective life?

Main discipline: Sociology

Selected publications:
• Pinedo, Jerónimo (2019): “Oficio, oficiantes y extensión universitaria. Notas a favor de una sociología modesta en una universidad de poros abiertos“, in: Cuestiones de sociología, 21, e081.

• Pinedo, Jerónimo (2020): “Repertorios represivos y repertorios de resistencia. Aproximaciones desde la experiencia de los obreros industriales de la zona sur del Gran Buenos Aires durante la última dictadura cívico militar (1976 y 1981)”, in: Zorzoli, Luciana and Mazzano, Juan P. (eds.), Clase obrera y dictadura militar en Argentina (1976-1983). Nuevos estudios sobre conflictividad y cambios estructurales, Argentina: EDITORIAL A CONTRACORRIEN.

• Pinedo, Jerónimo and Segura, Ramiro (2020): “Espacios, velocidades y senderos. Sobre algunas dinámicas espaciales de la Pandemia“, in: Escenarios, 32, 20.

• Pinedo, Jerónimo (ed.) (2021a): La Plata: Entre los libros de la buena memoria [forthcoming], FaHCE.

• Pinedo, Jerónimo (2021b): “Zona sur. Urdimbres de la acción colectiva popular en el Gran Buenos Aires (1974-1989)”, in: Pinedo, Jerónimo (ed.), La Plata: Entre los libros de la buena memoria [forthcoming], FaHCE.

• Pinedo, Jerónimo (2021c): “Misas, peregrinaciones y manifestaciones. Acción colectiva popular en el Gran Buenos Aires en dictadura (1976-1981)”, in: Clepsidra, Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios sobre Memoria, [forthcoming].

Raquel Rojas Scheffer holds a PhD in Sociology from FU Berlin, where she was part of the International Research Training Group “Between Spaces”. She obtained an M.A. in Social Sciences from the HU Berlin (Humboldt University of Berlin), with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She is originally from Paraguay, where she earned a Specialist Degree in Social Development from FLACSO (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences) and a B.A. in Social Sciences from the UNA (National University of Asuncion). She is a categorised researcher (Level I) at the Paraguayan National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT). Her research focuses on inequalities, social movements, and labour relations.

Project: Political changes in an intimate space? Lockdown and negotiations around care work in households that (used to) outsource domestic chores*

Abstract:

En la mayoría de los países de América Latina las clases altas y medias tienden a resolver sus necesidades de cuidado mediante la contratación de trabajadoras domésticas. Sin embargo, esta práctica se vio afectada con la irrupción de la pandemia de COVID-19. A partir de entrevistas con empleadoras de Asunción (Paraguay) que tuvieron que adaptarse a la ausencia de la trabajadora doméstica durante medidas de cuarentena, este proyecto analiza los cambios en las relaciones de convivencia y los arreglos relativos a la distribución de las tareas domésticas. Al hacerlo, pone de relieve no sólo cambios en la rutina y el uso del tiempo de los miembros de la familia, sino también en las percepciones del papel de la trabajadora doméstica y el valor del trabajo de cuidados dentro y fuera de los hogares.

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Main discipline: Sociology

Selected publications:
• Rojas Scheffer, Raquel (2019): “De Asunción a Ginebra: Trabajo doméstico remunerado y redes de activismo laboral en Paraguay”, in: Aguirre, Luis; Loysa, Carolin; Sánchez, Brenda M.; Moszczynska, Joanna and Suárez, Diana M. H. (eds.), Giros espacio-temporales: Repensando los entrelazamientos globales desde América Latina, Berlin: Walter Frey, 47–64.

• Rojas Scheffer, Raquel (2020a): “Physically Close, Socially Distant Paid Domestic Work and (Dis-)Encounters in Latin America’s Private Households“, in: Mecila Working Papers Series, 27.

• Rojas Scheffer, Raquel (2020b): “Same Work, Same Value? Paid Domestic Workers’ and Housewives’ Struggles for Rights in Uruguay and Paraguay“, in: Current Sociology.

• Rojas Scheffer, Raquel (2021): “Essential yet Undervalued. Paid Domestic Work, Migration, and the Struggles for Labor Rights in Uruguay and Paraguay”, in: Alba, Ximena and Bruno Miranda (eds.), Migrant Labor in Global Chains [forthcoming], Berlin: Walter Frey.

Madalina Stefan holds a PhD in Romance Philology and Cultural Studies from the University of Tübingen (EKUT), a Master’s degree in Interamerican Studies and a Bachelor´s degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Bielefeld University (BU). Besides, she studied filmmaking in Barcelona and was granted a junior fellowship at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research, as well as a postdoctoral WiRe-fellowship at the WWU Münster.

In the past years she participated in the organisation and lectureship of several international summer schools and conferences, and has taught at different universities, such as Pompeu Fabra (Spain), Bielefeld (Germany), Guadalajara (Mexico) and EKUT (Germany).

Her research interests are literary and cinematographic ecocriticism, gender and postcolonial studies, migration studies and accented cinema, essay and autobiographical writing in film and literature, and indigenous cinema.

Project: Postcolonial Resistance, Ecofeminism, and Conviviality in the Spanish American Jungle Novel

Abstract:

Decolonisation and the Anthropocene have become key words in the context of late postmodernity. The ways of narrating nature are gaining an increasing importance today as threatening scenarios of natural disasters and social injustice overshadow our completely medialised realities. Against this backdrop, the project investigates how narratives of nature have been used in a productive manner, foregrounding a postcolonial resistance that denounces the exploitation of nature and promotes a respectful conviviality between humans and nature. The project focuses on a particularly relevant literary moment that is famous for its entanglement of postcolonialism and nature-writing, namely the Spanish American jungle novel (novela de la selva).

Main discipline: Literary Studies

Selected publications:

• Stefan, Madalina (2015): “La suspensión del tiempo como felicidad del hombre“, in: DOCMA.

• Stefan, Madalina (2016): “Entrevista a Pablo Montoya”, in: Quimera, 388, 7–10.

• Stefan, Madalina (2021a) with Sebastian Thies and Graciela Martínez Zalce (ed.): Encuadrando la dictadura en el cine latinoamericano. Ciudad de Mexico: Bonilla Artigas Editores.

• Stefan, Madalina (2021b): “Naturaleza y resistencia poscolonial en <La Vorágine> y <Heart of Darkness>”, in: Matzat, Wolfgang and Tries, Sebastian (eds.), La invención de la naturaleza latinoamericana. Genealogía discursiva y funcionalidad sociocultural, Madrid: Iberoamericana/ Vervuert.

• Stefan, Madalina (2022): Espacio nómada en el ensayo autobiográfico del Accented Cinema [PhD thesis], New Orleans: University of New Orleans Press.

Nicolás Suárez holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He is a former scholarship-recipient of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and CONICET, as well as visiting scholar at the UzK. His book The Work and Life of Sarmiento in Cinema received an award from the National Contest of Studies on Argentine Cinema. He received the Best Essay Award by a Graduate Student from the LASA Film Section, and the First Prize in the Domingo Di Núbila Essay Contest, held by the Argentine Association of Audiovisual and Film Studies (AsAECA). He also directed the short film Centauro (Berlinale, 2017) and co-directed the feature film Hijos Nuestros (Mar del Plata, 2015).

Abstract: Latin American Film Museums: Remapping the Politics of Film Preservation in Convivial and Unequal Contexts*

The mid-20^th century saw the establishment of numerous new film museums and libraries designed to preserve the cultural heritage of certain communities. In Latin America specifically, these institutions developed as convivial configurations, in which profound cultural differences and asymmetric funding had significant consequences for the relationship between the film archives and different agents. This project will provide a comparative historical analysis of iconic Latin American film institutions. On the one hand, such relationships conferred legitimacy to existing hierarchies. On the other hand, however, they shaped anti-hegemonic memorialisation strategies, in the face of both poor public policy and of the digital technologies responsible for the medium’s descent into obsolescence.

Main discipline: Literary Studies

Selected publications:
• Suárez, Nicolás (2017a): “Movimiento y proyección en el matadero del cine argentino: Martín Fierro (1923) de Alfredo Quesada“, in: Catedral Tomada. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, 5, 9, 295–320.

• Suárez, Nicolás (2017b): Obra y vida de Sarmiento en el cine, Buenos Aires: Ciccus.

• Suárez, Nicolás (2019a): “El regreso de Nobleza gaucha: Homero Manzi y la ampliación del paisaje criollista en el cine sonoro“, in: Imagofagia. Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios de Cine y Audiovisual, 19, 171–2016.

• Suárez, Nicolás (2019b): “Los gauchos angloparlantes y la pampa en Technicolor: versiones y perversiones del Martín Fierro en Way of a Gaucho (1952) de Jacques Tourneur“, in: 452ºF, 20, 126–148.

• Suárez, Nicolás (2021): “The Creole Faust on Screen: Between Late Style and the Comedy of Development”, in: Wood, David and Ben Bollig (eds.), The Poetry-Film Nexus in Latin America. Exploring Intermediality on Page and Screen [forthcoming], Cambridge: Legenda.

Joanna M. Moszczynska, PhD became a Research Associate (postdoc) at the Center for International and Transnational Area Studies (CITAS) at the University of Regensburg in October 2020. From May to June 2021, she took over the deputy management of CITAS as a parental leave replacement.

From January 2016 to December 2018, she was a doctoral student in the DFG-funded International Research Training Group “Between Spaces” at the Latin America Institute of the FU Berlin. In 2020, she completed her doctoral thesis on the topic of Holocaust representation in Jewish-Brazilian literature after 1985. In 2018 she joined the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal CROLAR, Critical Reviews on Latin American Research.

Project: A Convivial Epistemology of Literature – Ryszard Kapuściński’s and Gabriel García Márquez’ Literary Journalism in the Cold War

Abstract:

My project furthers work on transregional literary and cultural studies with a focus on Latin America and its global entanglements. I propose to examine the character of these interconnections on the example of transnational literary journalism through the lens of the literary history framed as a history of entanglements (Werberger 2012). Combined with theoretical underpinnings drawn from affect theory (Massumi 1995) and TransArea literary studies (Ette 2012), my examination of the literary journalistic writings of Ryszard Kapuściński and Gabriel García Márquez is designed as a case study on a convivial epistemology of literature. It thus forms part of broader research on the hybrid genres of reportage and crónica as elements of a complex matrix of socio-historical and literary activity during the Cold War. My understanding of conviviality thereby does not limit itself to the configurations manifested in aesthetic practice, but also seeks to establish a framework for Cold War literary journalism as a social practice across borders. Consequently, the project concentrates on representations of conviviality while at the same time seeking to elaborate a methodological approach with regard to the circulation of knowledge together with its aesthetic, epistemic and social legitimation.

Main discipline: Literary Studies

Selected publications:
• Moszczyńska, Joanna M. “The Acts of Writing Oneself into Jewishness in Recent Jewish Brazilian Literature: Autofiction and Identity after the Holocaust in Jacques Fux’s Antiterapias (2012).” Journal of Jewish Identities 15, no. 1 (2022): 59-75. DOI.

• Moszczynska, Joanna M. “As porosidades do campo literário nacional: a emergência da literatura pós-Holocausto no Brasil / The porosities of the national literary field: the emergence of post-Holocaust literature in Brazil.” Revista Odisséia 5 (2020): 85-105. DOI.

• Moszczynska, Joanna M. “Nas águas do mesmo rio de Giselda Leirner: entrelaçamentos transnacionais femininos na escrita do Holocausto.” In Giros espacio-temporales: Repensando los entrelazamientos globales desde América Latina, ed. by Diana M. Hernández Suárez et al., 189-208. Berlin: Tranvía, 2019. ISBN 978-3-946327-16-7.

• Moszczynska, J. M. “Clarice Lispector e a latente escritura do desastre.” Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital De Estudos Judaicos Da UFMG, 11(21) (2017): 85–105. DOI.

Junior Fellows

José Ricardo Castellón

Clemente Penna

Juliana Streva

Léa Tosold

Jorge Ismael Estrada Benítez

Jerónimo Pinedo

Raquel Alejandra Rojas Scheffer

Madalina Stefan

Nicolás Suárez

Joanna Malgorzata Moszczynska

Junior Fellows

José Ricardo Castellón

José Ricardo Castellón History

Clemente Penna

Clemente Penna History

Juliana Streva

Juliana Streva Law

Léa Tosold

Léa Tosold Political Science

Jorge Ismael Estrada Benítez

Jorge Ismael Estrada Benítez Literary Studies

Jerónimo Pinedo

Jerónimo Pinedo Sociology

Raquel Alejandra Rojas Scheffer

Raquel Alejandra Rojas Scheffer Sociology

Madalina Stefan

Madalina Stefan Literary Studies

Nicolás Suárez

Nicolás Suárez Literary Studies

Joanna Malgorzata Moszczynska

Joanna Malgorzata Moszczynska Literary Studies

José Ricardo Castellón
History

Clemente Penna
History

Juliana Streva
Law

Léa Tosold
Political Science

Jorge Ismael Estrada Benítez
Literary Studies

Jerónimo Pinedo
Sociology

Raquel Alejandra Rojas Scheffer
Sociology

Madalina Stefan
Literary Studies

Nicolás Suárez
Literary Studies

Joanna Malgorzata Moszczynska
Literary Studies