LACIS
Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program

Victor Goldgel-Carballo

Currently in residence at the National Humanities Center (2019-2020) with an American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt fellowship.

 

  1. Goldgel-Carballo, Victor “Abolitionisms.” Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte (eds.) Cambridge Transitions in Latin American Literature, Volume 3 (1870-1930). Cambridge UP (forthcoming Spring 2021).
  2. Goldgel-Carballo, Victor “Forty-One Years a Slave. Agnosia and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Cuba.” Atlantic Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1 (March 2021), forthcoming. [Peer reviewed]
  3. Goldgel-Carballo, Victor “Slavery, Mobility and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba,” introduction to special issue co-edited with Daylet Domínguez (UC Berkeley), Atlantic Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1 (March 2021), forthcoming.
  4. Goldgel-Carballo, Victor, Co-editor (with Juan Poblete). Piracy and Intellectual Property in Latin America: Rethinking Creativity and the Common Good. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  5. Goldgel-Carballo, Victor “Pirate Book Aesthetics in Contemporary Argentina.” In Goldgel-Carballo, Víctor and Juan Poblete (eds.) Piracy and Intellectual Property in Latin America: Rethinking Creativity and the Common Good. New York: Routledge, 2020.
    • The book is the first sustained effort to present an alternative framework for understanding piracy and contemporary challenges to global discourses on intellectual property in the Americas.
  6. Goldgel-Carballo, Victor “Plagio y anacronismo deliberado en la novela antiesclavista cubana.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (Washington University in Saint Louis), vol. LIII, No. 2 (2019) [Peer reviewed]
    • The article analyzes the crime known in 19th-century Cuba as “plagio” (kidnapping and enslaving a free person, or stealing someone else’s slave), focusing on the long chain of displacements, denials, and deferrals that allowed to treat some lives as disposable.
  7. Goldgel-Carballo, V. (2018). Spectral realism: Cecilia Valdés as Gothic Novel. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 27(3).
    • The article examines the neglected spectral dimension of realism in Cirilo Villaverde’s canonical novel Cecilia Valdés (1882), and defines “spectral realism” as a mode of representing socially-produced absences.