

Lyons Hall 311D
Telephone: 617-552-1447
Email: ali.kulez@bc.edu
ORCID
20th-21st Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Food Studies, Global South Studies, Diaspora/Border Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities
Ali Kulezs research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literatures and cultures. His work examines the relationship between the body, identity, and politics with a particular focus on Cuban, Brazilian, and Argentine cultural production. His current book project, Gastropoetics: Cultural Figurations of Eating in Modern Cuba and Brazil, approaches consumption as a site of critical reflection on biopolitics, cosmopolitanism, and sovereignty. Before joining Boston College, Dr. Kulez was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago.
Journal Articles
Other Foods: Consumption, Biopolitics, and Identity in Orhan PamuksA Strangeness in My Mind. InKafamda Bir Tuhafl覺k zerine Yaz覺lar, edited by Pelin K覺vrak. Istanbul: Yap覺 Kredi Yay覺nlar覺 (forthcoming Fall 2023).
Narrating Hemispheric Performance: The Repertoire in Daniel Alarc籀n's Fiction.(2022): 51-72.
An Early Encounter in the Global South: Abd Al-Rahman Al-Baghdadis Journey to the Brazilian Empire.(2022): 196-220.
Eating (by) Oneself: The Wasteful Pleasures of Self-Cannibalism in Virgilio Pi簽eras La carne,53.3 (2019): 879-898.
Unburying the Specter: Post-Dictatorship Memory in Ricardo PigliasThe Absent City(La ciudad ausente).(2018): 85-103.
Disciplinary Surveillance and Simulation in Ahmet Midhat EfendisEsrar-覺 Cinayat, the First Detective Novel in Turkish Literature.(2016): 298-315.
Book Reviews
Demasiada luz para hacer poes穩a, by Paula Cucurella. Ficci籀n de la raz籀n (2021): n.p.
Soberan穩as en suspenso: Imaginaci籀n y violencia en Am矇rica Latina, by Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott. Archivos: Revista de filosof穩a. 捧簞9-10 (2004): 381-384.
Translations
Clarice Lispector in the Foreign Legion, Vicissitudes of a Reception, by Gonzalo Aguilar. The Journal of World Literature 2.1 (2017): 80-91.
Southern Silences: Ottoman Empire through a Brazilian Lens. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2023.
Narrating the Failures of the South: Asl覺 ErdoansThe City in Crimson Cloak.American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, University of Taipei (online), 2022.
Tropical Hunger: Scarcity, Crisis, and Melancholy in Antonio Jos矇 PontesLas comidas profundas.International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA (online), 2022.
Transcolonial Intimacies: The Case of Abd Al-Rahman Al-Baghdadi, Barrett Honors College Lecture Series, Arizona State University, 2020.
Ethics and Abjection: The Fiction of Osvaldo Lamborghini. Latinoam矇rica en perspectiva: Representaci籀n, narrativas y modos de vida, Harvard University, 2019.
Between Melancholy and Critique: The Sugar Industry in Contemporary Cuban Art. XXXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Boston, MA, 2019.
Translatability of Islam: An Ottoman Imam in the Brazilian Empire. Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, 2019.
The Morals of Antropofagia: Utopia, Androcentrism, and Women Drawing Back. XXXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Lima, Peru, 2017.
Afectos fr穩os: La ausencia de afectos en la cuent穩stica de Virgilio Pi簽era. III Seminario Cr穩tico Transnacional, Real Academia Conquense de Artes y Letras, Cuenca, Spain, 2016.
Eating, Animality, and Biopolitics in Osvaldo Lamborghinis Tadeys. XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), New York, NY, 2016.
Auto-cannibalism and the Ethics of Introjection in Virgilio Pi簽eras La carne. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Harvard University, 2016.
El animal que luego estoy as(esin)ando: Nadie nada nunca de Juan Jos矇 Saer o hacia una infrapol穩tica de lo animal. Seminario Cr穩tico Transnacional, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2015.
Playing the Game of Fort and Da: The Disappeared in Recent Argentine Cinema. XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2015.
Disciplinary Power and Parodic Simulation in Ahmet Mithat Efendis Esrar-覺 Cinayat, the First Detective Novel in Turkish Literature. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 2015.