DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE

Alejandra Uslenghi is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literary Studies. She is core faculty in the Critical Theory program and affiliated faculty in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program and the Global Avant-Garde and Modernisms Studies cluster program.

She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University and her MA from New School for Social research. She specializes in modern literature and visual culture; critical theory and comparative modernist studies; and on the history of photography and modern art in Latin America. Alejandra is currently at work on a book-length project on modernist photography in Latin America highlighting the contribution of émigré German and Easter-European women photographers and their intellectual connections with the mid-century literary avant-gardes.

Books

	Latin America at fin-de-siècle Universal Exhibitions. Modern Cultures of Visuality (Palgrave, New Directions in Latino American Cultures, 2016)
	Walter Benjamin. Culturas de la imagen (Eterna Cadencia, Buenos Aires, 2011, on 3rd edition)
	La cámara como método. La fotografía moderna de Grete Stern y Horacio Coppola (Eterna Cadencia, Buenos Aires, 2021)

 Art essays and collaboration with artists

	Gonzalo Elvira. Leer el sueño, Centro de Arte de Burgos, curated by Javier del Campo (catalog essay)
	Oscar Muñoz. Invisibilia, Phoenix and Blanton Art Museums, curated by Vanessa Davidson (catalog essay)
	Art_Latin America. Against the Survey, The David Museum, curated by James Oles (position essays on photographers Grete Stern and Alicia D’Amico)

Recent essays

“Visual Technologies” in Latin American Literature in Transition 1870-1930, Cambridge University Press, 2023 (edited by Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte)

“Gisèle Freund’s Latin America. The Cosmopolitan Promises of Modern Photography” in The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty- First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms, Routledge, 2023 (edited by Guillermina DeFerrari and Mariano Siskind).

Recent Guest Lectures

“Puntos ciegos. Fotógrafas alemanas modernas en Latinoamérica,” Universidad de San Martín, 2021

"La vida social del género y la sexualidad: Paz Errázuriz's La manzana de Adán y sus precursores",  Ciclo Boquitas pintadas, CUNY- Universidad Javeriana, 2021

“Fotógrafas mujeres en Latinoamérica,” Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, 2022

“Olds, el extranjero”, Fundación CIFHA, Buenos Aires, 2023.