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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.

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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

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