https://www.alikulez.com/cover daily 1.0 2023-02-25 https://www.alikulez.com/research daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/6c0b7291-44e0-4d15-8d9e-54fb0a61c8a6/resim.jpg Research - Make it stand out I am an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Boston College. My research explores twentieth- and twenty-first century Latin American literature and culture, with a particular focus on the cultural histories of Cuba, Brazil, and Argentina. I am equally interested in Latin America’s cultural encounters with the Middle East, and what they tell us about the contemporary global order. My first book project, Gastropoetics: Eating as Dissidence in Modern Cuban and Brazilian Literature, examines consumption as a site of critical reflection on biopolitics, cosmopolitanism, and sovereignty. I received my Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at the University of Southern California, hold a Master’s degree in English from the University of Warwick, and a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Bogazici University. Before joining Boston College, I was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. My work has been published, among other places, in Luso-Brazilian Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana, CR: The New Centennial Review, and Middle Eastern Literatures. https://www.alikulez.com/upcoming-projects daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/4fa485c5-ba78-4faf-9434-0ed734d6cab0/occupygezi-web.jpg Upcoming - Make it stand out Solidarity poster from Brazil to Turkey during the Gezi protests https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/09cfa97d-fb73-4c29-94f8-f6bf2ae2c313/tempImage6Gay1u.jpg Upcoming - Make it stand out The cover of René Coyra’s poetry collection “La gran depresión,” exclusively published by Ediciones Vigía. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/2da62a66-f400-4564-a342-955049f110c7/OL.jpeg Upcoming - Make it stand out Illustration from Osvaldo Lamborghini’s Teatro proletario de cámara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/d97a50d1-618d-4b97-ba6d-fe09cac3b335/kafamda-bir-tuhaflik.jpeg Upcoming - Make it stand out Cover art from A Strangeness in My Mind (Kerem Altuntas & Orhan Pamuk) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/1617237669018-68E83I1698HH03R0OH7C/71wMwDrbq0L.jpeg Upcoming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/1502788373935-HJ3Z2V277QXZLJ2BC22K/image-asset.jpeg Upcoming Guanabara Bay (Rio de Janeiro), circa 1870 https://www.alikulez.com/teaching daily 0.75 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/fd097e8f-28e0-4746-971a-b4b57b288c2e/IMG_3038.jpeg Teaching - Make it stand out Talking to immigration activists at the Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico City) through the McMullen Portal at Boston College. February 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/3e3eb58a-0a82-4102-a8d2-b4e0e3390187/tempImageTSVoEv.jpg Teaching - Make it stand out Students of “Food and Identity in Latin/x American Literature” learning how to prepare the Puerto Rican dish mofongo. February 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/f83514dc-1693-433d-9a2e-5cff1322862b/o+touro.jpg Teaching - Make it stand out Tarsila do Amaral, O Touro (1928) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/0dbab90e-9b76-46f4-a14e-7c270b373b31/tricontinental.jpg Teaching - Latin America and the Global South Cover art from the Tricontinental Bulletin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/125c9ea9-e4a3-4c80-abab-33b12845611f/eternauta-blanco-780x781.jpg Teaching - Latin American Science Fiction This course examines SF stories, films, graphic novels, and artworks from twentieth- and twenty-first century Central and South America. We will study the ways in which Latin American authors and artists appropriate this genre intimately connected with notions of Western modernity and technological progress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/e3dea0ee-1cdd-46f5-b1bb-2097ce0bb04c/1630606385045.jpg Teaching - Food and Identity in Latin America This course examines how images of food and eating mediate questions of identity in Latin American literature and culture from the late 1920s to the present. Studying a diverse range of materials including essays, stories, manifestos, performances, and visual art, we will reflect on the ways in which such scenes intervene in contemporary discussions of identity, cosmopolitanism, and national sovereignty in Latin America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598b1b1a37c581cb56bcbb28/68a9d4b3-d61e-479d-a441-43580cab456b/ClariceLispector_LI-0036_1920x1080.jpg Teaching - Poetics of Life This course will explore the representation of lives traditionally considered “other” in Latin America, namely those that belong to female, indigenous, and nonhuman subjects. 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