

Lyons Hall 311D
Telephone: 617-552-1447
Email: ali.kulez@bc.edu
ORCID
20th-21st Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Food Studies, Global South Studies, Diaspora/Border Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities
Ali Kulezâs research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literatures and cultures. His work examines the relationship between the body, identity, and politics with a particular focus on Cuban, Brazilian, and Argentine cultural production. His current book project, Gastropoetics: Cultural Figurations of Eating in Modern Cuba and Brazil, approaches consumption as a site of critical reflection on biopolitics, cosmopolitanism, and sovereignty. Before joining Boston College, Dr. Kulez was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago.
Journal Articles
âOther Foods: Consumption, Biopolitics, and Identity in Orhan Pamukâs A Strangeness in My Mind.â In Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık Ăzerine Yazılar, edited by Pelin Kıvrak. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları (forthcoming Fall 2023).
âNarrating Hemispheric Performance: The Repertoire in Daniel AlarcĂłn's Fiction.â  (2022): 51-72.
âAn Early Encounter in the Global South: âAbd Al-Rahman Al-Baghdadiâs Journey to the Brazilian Empire.â  (2022): 196-220.
âEating (by) Oneself: The Wasteful Pleasures of Self-Cannibalism in Virgilio Piñeraâs âLa carneâ,â  53.3 (2019): 879-898.
âUnburying the Specter: Post-Dictatorship Memory in Ricardo Pigliaâs The Absent City (La ciudad ausente).â  (2018): 85-103.
âDisciplinary Surveillance and Simulation in Ahmet Midhat Efendiâs Esrar-ı Cinayat, the First Detective Novel in Turkish Literature.â (2016): 298-315.
Book Reviews
Demasiada luz para hacer poesĂa, by Paula Cucurella. FicciĂłn de la razĂłn (2021): n.p.  Â
SoberanĂas en suspenso: ImaginaciĂłn y violencia en AmĂ©rica Latina, by Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott. Archivos: Revista de filosofĂa. ±·Â°9-10 (2004): 381-384.
Translations
âClarice Lispector in the Foreign Legion, Vicissitudes of a Reception,â by Gonzalo Aguilar. The Journal of World Literature 2.1 (2017): 80-91.
âSouthern Silences: Ottoman Empire through a Brazilian Lens.â American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2023.
âNarrating the Failures of the South: Aslı ErdoÄanâs The City in Crimson Cloak.â American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, University of Taipei (online), 2022.
âTropical Hunger: Scarcity, Crisis, and Melancholy in Antonio JosĂ© Ponteâs Las comidas profundas.â International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA (online), 2022.
âTranscolonial Intimacies: The Case of Abd Al-Rahman Al-Baghdadi,â Barrett Honors College Lecture Series, Arizona State University,â 2020.
âEthics and Abjection: The Fiction of Osvaldo Lamborghini.â LatinoamĂ©rica en perspectiva: RepresentaciĂłn, narrativas y modos de vida, Harvard University, 2019.
âBetween Melancholy and Critique: The Sugar Industry in Contemporary Cuban Art.â XXXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Boston, MA, 2019.
âTranslatability of Islam: An Ottoman Imam in the Brazilian Empire.â Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, 2019.
âThe Morals of Antropofagia: Utopia, Androcentrism, and Women Drawing Back.â XXXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Lima, Peru, 2017.
âAfectos frĂos: La ausencia de afectos en la cuentĂstica de Virgilio Piñera.â III Seminario CrĂtico Transnacional, Real Academia Conquense de Artes y Letras, Cuenca, Spain, 2016.
âEating, Animality, and Biopolitics in Osvaldo Lamborghiniâs Tadeys.â XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), New York, NY, 2016.
âAuto-cannibalism and the Ethics of Introjection in Virgilio Piñeraâs âLa carne.ââ American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Harvard University, 2016.
âEl animal que luego estoy as(esin)ando: Nadie nada nunca de Juan JosĂ© Saer o hacia una infrapolĂtica de lo animal.â Seminario CrĂtico Transnacional, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2015.
âPlaying the Game of Fort and Da: The Disappeared in Recent Argentine Cinema.â XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2015.
âDisciplinary Power and Parodic Simulation in Ahmet Mithat Efendiâs Esrar-ı Cinayat, the First Detective Novel in Turkish Literature.â American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 2015.