

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 Kulez’s 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 ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã, Dr. Kulez was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago.
Journal Articles
“Other Foods: Consumption, Biopolitics, and Identity in Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind.†In Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık Üzerine Yazılar, edited by Pelin Kıvrak. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları (forthcoming Fall 2023).
“Narrating Hemispheric Performance: The Repertoire in Daniel Alarcón's Fiction.â€Â  (2022): 51-72.
“An Early Encounter in the Global South: ‘Abd Al-Rahman Al-Baghdadi’s Journey to the Brazilian Empire.â€Â  (2022): 196-220.
“Eating (by) Oneself: The Wasteful Pleasures of Self-Cannibalism in Virgilio Piñera’s ‘La carne’,â€Â  53.3 (2019): 879-898.
“Unburying the Specter: Post-Dictatorship Memory in Ricardo Piglia’s The Absent City (La ciudad ausente).â€Â  (2018): 85-103.
“Disciplinary Surveillance and Simulation in Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s Esrar-ı Cinayat, the First Detective Novel in Turkish Literature.â€Â (2016): 298-315.
Book Reviews
Demasiada luz para hacer poesÃa, by Paula Cucurella. Ficción de la razón (2021): n.p.  Â
SoberanÃas en suspenso: Imaginación y violencia en América Latina, by Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott. Archivos: Revista de filosofÃa. ±·Â°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: Aslı ErdoÄŸan’s The City in Crimson Cloak.â€Â American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, University of Taipei (online), 2022.
“Tropical Hunger: Scarcity, Crisis, and Melancholy in Antonio José Ponte’s Las comidas profundas.â€Â 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.†Latinoamérica en perspectiva: Representación, 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 frÃos: La ausencia de afectos en la cuentÃstica de Virgilio Piñera.†III Seminario CrÃtico Transnacional, Real Academia Conquense de Artes y Letras, Cuenca, Spain, 2016.
“Eating, Animality, and Biopolitics in Osvaldo Lamborghini’s Tadeys.†XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), New York, NY, 2016.
“Auto-cannibalism and the Ethics of Introjection in Virgilio Piñera’s ‘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 José Saer o hacia una infrapolÃtica de lo animal.†Seminario CrÃtico 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 Efendi’s Esrar-ı Cinayat, the First Detective Novel in Turkish Literature.†American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 2015.