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01 Jun 2023 00:00

prof.ssa Victoria Ríos Castaño.

DSLCC

Interview
1. Please provide a brief outline of your training and scientific activity. 

I have an established record of original research on early colonial and contemporary Latin American Literature. Regarding the former, I have published a number of studies on Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and the Florentine Codex, including a monograph (2014) on how Sahagún collected data by applying inquisitorial and confessional techniques, and articles in peer-refereed journals like The Americas (2018). Currently, I have in print an article on how the epidemics reported in the codex framed Sahagún’s understanding of the evangelization (De Gruyter, 2024). I have two other fields of research in connection with colonial Latin America. First, I am analysing data on views of the conquest and the Columbian Exchange in early modern colonial Spanish-American accounts that were provided by indigenous and Spanish colonial authorities (Relaciones geográficas de Indias). On this topic, I have recently published a chapter in Relating Continents: Coloniality and Global Encounters in Romance Literary and Cultural (De Gruyter, 2023), have an article in print in a special issue (Early Modern Studies Journal), and will be delivering a paper at the international conference ‘Synchronizing History: The Transplantation of European Ideas in the Americas’ (September 2024, University of Palermo). My second line of enquiry is the examination of early modern English translations of Spanish documents on the New World (e.g. navigational manuals, accounts of exploration and conquest, and descriptions of natural history), which I initiated with a comparative essay of translations into English, French, and Italian of Francisco López de Gómara’s La conquista de México in the peer-refereed journal Target: International Journal of Translation (2019). 
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2. Please state your reasons for choosing Venice and the Department for your research and teaching stay.
I have worked in the past with three members of your Department, who are experts on Latin American literature: Emeritus Professor Suzanna Regazzoni, Dr Margherita Cannavacciuolo, and Dr Alice Favaro. Our collaborations are still ongoing (please, refer to my answer to question 3) and new projects will be discussed during my stay. 

3. Have you ever had a research collaboration with the teaching staff of Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies in the past?
I have written two ‘Valutazioni’ for two PhD students in your department (i.e. Mariana Oggioni, on crime fiction, and Silvia Lunardi, on the New Latino Boom). 
I was invited to deliver a paper at an international conference organised by Dr Margherita Cannavacciuolo in 2023:  “¿Vivieron (in)felices y comieron perdices? Construcción y deconstrucción de los modelos feéricos en las literaturas hispanoamericanas (siglos XX y XXI)”
I contributed to the online debate on Julio Cortázar (1984-2024), academic discussion of El cuerpo cómplice: Los cuentos de Julio Cortázar (2020) by Margherita Cannavacciuolo, organized by Emeritus Professor Susanna Regazzoni
I co-organised the third international conference on Latin American women writers

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