Bio - Raquel Parrine
Raquel Parrine is a scholar of gender and sexuality in contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts. Her research explores ways in which gender and sexuality in Latin America have embodied particular ways of political intervention in contemporary literature and visual arts.

Parrine is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Spanish at Haverford College. Before she joined Haverford, she also taught at the University of Michigan and Universidade de Brasília.
She is the author of numerous articles about contemporary Latin American literature and film published in peer-reviewed journals such as Revista Estudos Feministas, Criação e Crítica, and Working Papers. Other research interests include the intersection of race, gender, and territoriality, as well as textile art, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. She is also a translator of critical theory and literature, having co-translated books by Silvia Federici, Stephano Harney, and Fred Moten to Portuguese.
Education
2024
Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
2020
M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
2012
M.A. in Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada, Universidade de São Paulo
2009
B.A. in Spanish and Portuguese, Universidade de São Paulo
Professional Appointments
2025-2026
Haverford College, Department of Spanish, Visiting Assistant Professor
2024-2025
University of Michigan, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Postdoctoral Fellow
2015-2024
University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor
2013-2015
Universidade de Brasília, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, Professora Substituta
Awards
2025
Fernando Arenas Award - American Portuguese Studies Association
2023
2023
Alfredo and Luz María Gutiérrez Fellowship Dissertation Award
2023
Community of Scholars, Institute for Women and Gender and Rackham Graduate School
2021
Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities