Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli's research and scholarship are dedicated to the environmental humanities and to study elaborations of space and place in competing visions of globality across Latin America and the Latinx world. Her volume Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World (Routledge, 2020) with A. M. Mutis and I. Kressner, delves into Latin American and Latinx writing, film, visual, and performing arts to offer new perspectives on ecological violence. Building on the notion of "slow violence" (Rob Nixon) this work explores processes of environmental destruction that are not immediately visible, and investigates how writers, cultural activists, filmmakers, and visual and performance artists across the region conceptualize, visualize, and document this invisible but far-reaching realm of violence that so tenaciously resists representation. Her previous volume, Troubled Waters: Rivers in Latin American Imagination (HIOL, 2013) with A. M. Mutis, underscores an intellectual turn in Hispanic and Lusophone Studies toward inquiry into the environment, and more specifically, the material, metaphysical, and literary 鈥渘ature鈥 emblematic of rivers as boundary and as connection; as paths to death and life; as emblems of both transformation and an anchoring of identity; as signs of dissolution and transformation; and as embodiment of change and continuity. Professor Pettinaroli has also contributed chapters to the History of Colombian Literature (Cambridge UP, 2016) and articles on the elaboration of space and place, the invention of the global, notions of nature, and bibliodiversity in several academic journals.
Professor Pettinaroli's creative scholarship includes the founding and directing of Memphis Cartonera, a cooperative publishing house dedicated to ecocritical praxis, translation, and engaged learning in collaboration with counterparts in the Nuevo South (a diversifying South) and throughout Latin America. She is also a board member and faculty of the Institute for Health Equity and Community Justice at 星空无限传媒 College, where she contributes to train healthcare providers with skills to create a culture of equity that reaches across all domains of the healthcare system.
Selected Publications
Books and book-length publications
Ecologies of Resistance in Latin America and the Latinx World. Forthcoming.
Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World. Co-editor with Ilka Kressner and Ana Mar铆a Mutis. Routledge, 2020.
Troubled Waters: Rivers in Latin American Imagination. Co- editor with Ana Mar铆a Mutis. Hispanic Issues Online. 12. U. of Minnesota P, 2013.
Articles and Chapters
鈥淔etishism of Form, Temporalities of Waste, and Slow Violence in Cartonera Publishing of the Triple Frontier (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina).鈥 In: Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World. Routledge, 2020.
鈥淐osmography, Ethnography, and the Literary Imagination of the New Kingdom of Granada.鈥 In: History of Colombian Literature. Ed. Raymond Williams. Cambridge UP. 2016.
鈥淲atershed of Sorrows: The Epic of Impossibility and New Theorizations of Tropicalia in El ep铆tome de las conquistas del Nuevo Reino de Granada.鈥 In: Troubled Waters: Rivers in Latin American Imagination. Eds. Elizabeth Pettinaroli and Ana Mar铆a Mutis. Hispanic Issues Online. 12. U. of Minnesota P, 2013.
鈥淭he Critical Metageographies of the Indies in Andr茅s Gonz谩les de Barcia鈥檚 Introducci贸n al Ensayo Cronol贸gico para la historia general de la Florida.鈥 Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment. 36.1 (Fall 2013) pp. 1-25.
鈥淭he Arauco and Troy in the Alpujarras: Global Visions and Local Destinies in Guerras Civiles de Granada鈥. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 13:4 (2012), 408-421.
鈥淩eason and Cognition in the Auto de los Reyes Magos and Alfonsi鈥檚 Dialogue Against the Jews.鈥 Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies. 4.2 (September 2012) pp. 185-197.
鈥淓mplacing the Orient in Mexico: Topographic Mythologies in Eugenio Salazar y Alarc贸n鈥檚 鈥楧escripci贸n de la Laguna.鈥欌 Colonial Latin American Review. 19.3 (December 2010) pp. 373-391.
Co-authored
鈥淚ntroduction.鈥 In: Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World. Routledge, 2020.
鈥淰isions of Nature: Colombian Literature and the Environment from the Colonial Period to the Nineteenth Century." In: History of Colombian Literature. Ed. Raymond Williams. Cambridge UP, 2016.
鈥淚ntroduction鈥. In: Troubled Waters: Rivers in Latin American Imagination. Eds. Elizabeth Pettinaroli and Ana Mar铆a Mutis. Hispanic Issues Online. 12. U. of Minnesota P, 2013.
Reviews
Periplo hasta las regiones ubicadas al sur del equinoccio. Alejandro Geraldini. Ed. Carmen Gonz谩lez V谩zquez and Jes煤s Paniagua P茅rez. Renaissance Quarterly. 63.4 (Winter 2010) pp. 1300-1301.
鈥淢io Cid Studies: 鈥睸ome Problems of Diplomatic鈥 Fifty Years On.鈥 Ed. by Alan Deyermond, David G. Pattison, & Eric Southworth. Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 42. 2002. La cor贸nica. 32.2 (2004) pp. 242-243.