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HERMANN HERLINGHAUS


Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies

PhD, University of Rostock; Dr. Habil, University of Frankfurt Main (Germany)

Room 1309C, Cathedral of Learning
412-624-8673
hxh@pitt.edu

 

Focus: 20th-Century Latin American narrative and film; US Latino film and                                        performance; political philosophy; and ethics.
Faculty associate of the Center for Latin American Studies, the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, and the Film Studies Doctoral Certificate Program.

His books and monographs include:

  • Violence Without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Global South (2008).
  • Renarración y descentramiento. Mapas alternativos de la imaginación en América Latina (2004).
  • Narraciones anacrónicas de la modernidad: Melodrama e intermedialidad en América Latina (2002).
  • Popular Culture. A Conceptual History (in German), in Ästhetische Grundbegriffe, Vol. IV, ed.  Karlheinz Barck et. al (2002)
  • Intermediality and Narrative Experience (in German) (1994).
  • Alejo Carpentier (in German) (1991).

 

His edited and coedited volumes:

  •  Fronteras de la modernidad en América Latina (with Mabel Moraña) (2003)
  • Contemporaneidad latinoamericana y análisis cultural (with Jesús Martín-Barbero) (2000).
  • Heterotopias of Identity. Literature in the Inter-American Contact Zones (with Utz Riese; in German) (1999).
  • Postcolonial Aporias of Modernity in the Americas (with Utz Riese; in German)1997.
  • Posmodernidad en la periferia: Enfoques latinoamericanos de la nueva teoría cultural (1994).
  • Modern Latin American Novelists (in German) (1989).

Published chapters in books (since 2001):

  • “On the Non-tragic Return of Violence in Latin American Film,” in The Blackwell Companion to Latin American Culture and Literature, ed. Sara Castro-Klarén (2008). 
  • "Zur neuen Krise der kosmopolitischen Imagination" (On the New Crisis of Cosmopolitan Imagination), in Berlin, Paris, Moskau. Reiseliteratur und die Metropolen, eds. Walter Fähnders et. al. (2005).
  • "Literature and Revolution in Latin America," Literary Cultures of Latin America. A Comparative History, Vol. III, eds. Mario J. Valdés and Djelal Kadir (2004).
  • "Imaginación melodramática, narración anacrónica e identidades diferentes," in Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana, eds. Carlos Jáuregui and Juan Pablo Dabove (2003).
  • "La imaginación melodramática. Rasgos intermediales y heterogéneos de una categoría precaria," in Narraciones anacrónicas de la modernidad. Melodrama e intermedialidad en América Latina, ed. H. Herlinghaus (2002).
  • "Narrativization as De-Representation of Modernity: Peripheral Reflections on Benjamin’s The Storyteller," in Other Modernisms in an Age of Globalization, eds. Djelal Kadir and Dorothea Loebbermann (2002).
  • "Die Stimme" (The Voice), in Masse und  Medium (Mass and Media), eds. Ingeborg Muenz-Koenen and Wolfgang Schaeffner (2002).
  • "Sobre la insubordinación de la memoria y sus narraciones críticas," in Pensar en/la postdictadura, eds. Nelly Richard and Alberto Moreiras, (2001).
  • "Desafiar a Walter Benjamin desde América Latina. De la 'violencia' del discurso a unas 'terribles ambivalencias' de la narración," in Espacio urbano: comunicación y violencia en América Latina, ed. Mabel Moraña (2001). 

Journal articles (since 2001):

  • "En contra del dogma de la 'mera' vida",  Revista de Critica Cultural, 34 (December 2006)
  • “La construcción del nexo de violencia y culpa en La Virgen de los Sicarios de Fernando Vallejo,” Nómadas (Bogotá) 25 (Octubre 2006).
  • "Subcomandante Marcos: Narrative Policy and Epistemological Project," Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 14:1 (March 2005).
  • "Parataxe" (Parataxis), Trajekte. Zeitschrift des Zentrums für Literaturforschung Berlin, Special thematic issue, 2004.
  • "On the Phenomena of Narcocorridos and Narcoculture." E-misferica (Online Journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University), 1, Fall 2004.
  • "Transgression and Intermediality. The Cultural Journeys of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Americas", at: permanent Website of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (June 2003, New York University), [http://www.hemi.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/usa].
  • "Narración e imaginarios identitarios. Paradojas y pistas de reflexión,” Nómadas (Bogotá) 16 (April 2002).
  • "Performance público y práctica narrativa en el Subcomandante Marcos (México)", at: Website of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (June 2002), [http://www.hemi.ps.tsoa.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/peru].
  • "Tramas interculturales de la modernidad y materialismo hermenéutico en América Latina." Estudios. Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales (Caracas) 9:17 (2001).
  • "Memory, Performance and Vagabondage as Conceptual Elements of Nelly Richard’s Aesthetic Criticism," Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 9:3 (December 2000).

 

Hermann Herlinghaus is a member of the Executive Board of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; and on the editorial committees of Nómadas (Bogotá), RELEA (Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Avanzados; Caracas), Kosmopolis (Berlin), and E-misférica (New York).

His active lecture schedule includes academic and conference presentations on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently:

  • " 'On the Dialetics of Ecstasy and Humiliating Sobriety' (Walter Benjamin)" (at the V. International Latin American Cultural Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, April 2008)
  • "Critica literaria y afectividades controvertidas", Conference Perspectives de la Critica Literaria en el siglo XXI, UNAL Columbia, Bogota (October 2007)
  • "Violence and Ethics" (at the annual LASA Conference Montreal, Canada, September 2007)
  • “Walter Benjamin’s In/Comparable Intoxications: Between Surrealism, Critique of Catholicism, and ‘Anthropological Materialism’”, (at the International Walter Benjamin: Das Jetzt der Erkennbarkeit – The Now of Cognizability Conference, Berlin, Zentrum für Literaturforschung/ Deutsche Kulturstiftung, October 2006).
  • “Where Affection Meets Figuration: Narcocorridos between Violence and Ethics” (at NYU, Department of Music, September 2006).
  • “The Concept of the Sacred at the Threshold”, (at the Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association/ACLA), Princeton, March, 2006.
  • Violence and Religion in Fernando Vallejo’s novel La Virgen de los Sicarios, III Congreso Internacional de Estudios Transatlánticos, (Brown  University, Department of Hispanic Studies, , Providence, March 15, 2006.
  • “Narconarratives and the Paratactical Engagement of Border Space” (at the Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association/LASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, March, 2006. 

Herlinghaus held a Senior Research Fellowship awarded by the University Center of International Studies (UCIS) at the University of Pittsburgh during Fall semester, 2005.

In 1998, he received a Rockefeller Foundation Senior Research Fellowship that enabled him to participate in the project Postdictadura y Transición Democrática, directed by Nelly Richard, Santiago de Chile.  During Spring 1997, he was a Visiting Scholar at Brown University, Department of Hispanic Studies, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG-Foundation), Bonn, Germany.