Romance Languages and Literatures
Ali Kulez
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies
Ali Kulez
Ph.D.
Contact
Lyons Hall 311D
Telephone: 617-552-1447
Email: ali.kulez@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- B.A., Bogazici University
- M.A., University of Warwick
- Ph.D., University of Southern California
Research Interests
20th-21st Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Food Studies, Global South Studies, Diaspora/Border Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
鈥淔ood and Scarcity: Ediciones Vig铆a's Aesthetics of Abjection (1999-2010).鈥澨�听(2025): 398-422.
鈥淭he Literary Misencounter: South-South Hermeneutics in Asl谋 Erdo臒an鈥檚听The City in Crimson Cloak.鈥澨�听(2025): 98-119.
鈥淥ther Foods: Consumption, Biopolitics, and Identity in Orhan Pamuk鈥檚听A Strangeness in My Mind.鈥� In听Kafamda Bir Tuhafl谋k 脺zerine Yaz谋lar, edited by Pelin K谋vrak. Istanbul: Yap谋 Kredi Yay谋nlar谋 (forthcoming Fall 2023).
鈥淣arrating Hemispheric Performance: The Repertoire in Daniel Alarc贸n's Fiction.鈥澨�听(2022): 51-72.
鈥淎n Early Encounter in the Global South: 鈥楢bd Al-Rahman Al-Baghdadi鈥檚 Journey to the Brazilian Empire.鈥澨�(2022): 196-220.
鈥淓ating (by) Oneself: The Wasteful Pleasures of Self-Cannibalism in Virgilio Pi帽era鈥檚 鈥楲a carne鈥�,鈥澨�听53.3 (2019): 879-898.
鈥淯nburying the Specter: Post-Dictatorship Memory in Ricardo Piglia鈥檚听The Absent City听(La ciudad ausente).鈥澨�(2018): 85-103.
鈥淒isciplinary Surveillance and Simulation in Ahmet Midhat Efendi鈥檚听Esrar-谋 Cinayat, the First Detective Novel in Turkish Literature.鈥澨�(2016): 298-315.
Book Reviews
鈥淏lack Legacies Worldwide: On Sarah M. Quesada鈥檚听The African Heritage of Caribbean and Latinx Literature.鈥澨�听(2024): n.p.
Hope is Tanning on a Nudist Beach, by Ethel Barja.听:v.29, n.1 Spring (#114).
Demasiada luz para hacer poes铆a, by Paula Cucurella. Ficci贸n de la raz贸n (2021): n.p.听 听听
Soberan铆as en suspenso: Imaginaci贸n y violencia en Am茅rica Latina, by Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott. Archivos: Revista de filosof铆a. 狈掳9-10 (2004): 381-384.
Translations
鈥淐larice Lispector in the Foreign Legion, Vicissitudes of a Reception,鈥� by Gonzalo Aguilar. The Journal of World Literature 2.1 (2017): 80-91.
SELECTED LECTURES & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
鈥淔ood and Scarcity: The Cookbooks of Ediciones Vig铆a.鈥� Sue帽os Scholars Speaker Series, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT, 2025.
鈥淔ood and Scarcity: Ediciones Vig铆a鈥檚 Aesthetics of Abjection (1999-2010).鈥澨齀nternational Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, CA, 2025.
鈥淗emispheric Carceralities: The Fiction and Journalism of Daniel Alarc贸n.鈥� Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, 2025.
听鈥淎bjecting the Beautiful: Food and Affect in Ediciones Vig铆a. Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, 2025.
鈥�Antropofagia: A Tale of Three Cannibalisms.鈥� International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Bogot谩, Colombia, 2024.
鈥淚nternationalism after the Cold War: Asl谋 Erdo臒an鈥檚听The City in Crimson Cloak听and the Global South.鈥� Red World Literature. University of Iceland, 2024.
鈥淪outhern Silences: Ottoman Empire through a Brazilian Lens.鈥� American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2023.
鈥淣arrating the Failures of the South: Asl谋 Erdo臒an鈥檚听The City in Crimson Cloak.鈥澨鼳merican Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, University of Taipei (online), 2022.
鈥淭ropical Hunger: Scarcity, Crisis, and Melancholy in Antonio Jos茅 Ponte鈥檚听Las comidas profundas.鈥澨齀nternational Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA (online), 2022.
鈥淭ranscolonial Intimacies: The Case of Abd Al-Rahman Al-Baghdadi,鈥� Barrett Honors College Lecture Series, Arizona State University,鈥� 2020.
鈥淓thics and Abjection: The Fiction of Osvaldo Lamborghini.鈥� Latinoam茅rica en perspectiva: Representaci贸n, narrativas y modos de vida, Harvard University, 2019.
鈥淏etween Melancholy and Critique: The Sugar Industry in Contemporary Cuban Art.鈥� XXXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Boston, MA, 2019.
鈥淭ranslatability of Islam: An Ottoman Imam in the Brazilian Empire.鈥� Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, 2019.
鈥淭he Morals of Antropofagia: Utopia, Androcentrism, and Women Drawing Back.鈥� XXXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Lima, Peru, 2017.
鈥淎fectos fr铆os: La ausencia de afectos en la cuent铆stica de Virgilio Pi帽era.鈥� III Seminario Cr铆tico Transnacional, Real Academia Conquense de Artes y Letras, Cuenca, Spain, 2016.
鈥淓ating, Animality, and Biopolitics in Osvaldo Lamborghini鈥檚 Tadeys.鈥� XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), New York, NY, 2016.
鈥淎uto-cannibalism and the Ethics of Introjection in Virgilio Pi帽era鈥檚 鈥楲a carne.鈥欌�� American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Harvard University, 2016.
鈥淓l animal que luego estoy as(esin)ando: Nadie nada nunca de Juan Jos茅 Saer o hacia una infrapol铆tica de lo animal.鈥� Seminario Cr铆tico Transnacional, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2015.
鈥淧laying the Game of Fort and Da: The Disappeared in Recent Argentine Cinema.鈥� XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2015.
鈥淒isciplinary Power and Parodic Simulation in Ahmet Mithat Efendi鈥檚 Esrar-谋 Cinayat, the First Detective Novel in Turkish Literature.鈥� American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 2015.