The Verbivocovisual Revolution: Anti-Literature, Affect, Politics, and World Literature in Augusto de Campos

Adam Joseph Shellhorse (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Spanish, Portuguese, and Global Studies and Director of Latin American Studies at Temple University, where he serves as the advisor of the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Program. His research examines modern and contemporary Latin American literature and poetics, visual culture, critical theory, and women’s writing, with particular emphasis on comparative Inter-American studies and the relationship between aesthetics, affect, and politics. He is the author of Anti-Literature: The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina (University of Pittsburgh Press, Illuminations, Cultural Formations of the Americas, 2017), which is currently being translated into Portuguese by Editora Perspectiva (Estudos Series) and into Spanish by Santiago Arcos Editor with anticipated publication dates of 2020. His recent work has or soon will appear in Luso-Brazilian Review, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Política Común, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry, Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. He is currently working on a second book that examines the problem of affect, multimedia, and politics in Brazilian and Spanish American experimental writings. Shellhorse serves as co-chair of the Latin American Studies Association’s Brazilian Section.