Bio
Raquel Parrine is a scholar of gender and sexuality in contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts, with a focus on Brazil and Paraguay. Her research examines how literature and textile art offer delicate forms of queer and feminist expression in the aftermath of authoritarianism.
Parrine is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Spanish at Bryn Mawr College with a research focus on gender and sexuality studies. Before she joined Bryn Mawr, she also taught at Universidade de Brasília and Haverford College.
Her forthcoming book, Delicate Forms: Proto-Queerness and Democracy in the Making in Brazil and Paraguay, traces how artists developed experimental forms of gender and sexual dissidence amid the intertwined histories of authoritarianism, colonialism, and racialization. Her work moves across questions of race, gender, sexuality, and territoriality, and has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Revista Estudos Feministas, Criação & Crítica, and Working Papers. She is also a translator of critical theory and literature and has co-translated works by Silvia Federici, Stefano Harney, and Fred Moten into Portuguese.
Education
Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
M.A. in Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada, Universidade de São Paulo
B.A. in Spanish and Portuguese, Universidade de São Paulo
Professional Appointments
Bryn Mawr College, Department of Spanish, Visiting Assistant Professor
Haverford College, Department of Spanish, Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Michigan, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor
Universidade de Brasília, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, Professora Substituta
Selected Awards
Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities
Fernando Arenas Award - American Portuguese Studies Association
Alfredo and Luz María Gutiérrez Fellowship Dissertation Award
Community of Scholars, Institute for Women and Gender and Rackham Graduate School