Antebi, Susan

Degrees

• B.A. Amherst College, English and Spanish, 1994
• M.A. Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures, 1998
• Ph.D. Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures, 2003

Biography

Susan Antebi's research focuses on the representation of corporeal difference and disability in twentieth century Spanish American narrative, examining discursive intersections of the literalized material body and metaphorical corporeality. Her book in progress, "Carnal Inscriptions" studies the work of contemporary writers such as Mario Bellatín, David Toscana and Naief Yehya, exploring corporeal difference in narrative through the tropology of monstrosity, and the history of the freak show and ethnographic spectacle. This work argues that attention to the junctures between these histories allows for a critical renegotiation of relationships between metaphor and performed materiality, representation and resistance. Her other research and teaching interests include literary theories of embodiment, medicine and technology; feminist theory, performance studies, Latin American Jewish writers, and Spanish American Orientalism. (Updated 10/07).

Awards

• 2005: University of California Center for Ideas and Society/Ford Foundation Residency Fellowship
• 2002-03: Whiting Fellowship
• 1996-98: Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
• 1995-96: Fullbright Scholar, Ecuador

Publications by Susan Antebi

"A tiger in the tank: a literary genetics of the Mexican axolotl." Latin American Literary Review 71 (2008): 75-98.

"De otros ajolotes: el cuerpo escrito del anfibio fantástico." In Rumbos de lo fantástico. Ana María Morales and José Miguel Sardiñas, Eds. Palencia: Cálamo, 2007. 75-94.

"Caliban and Coney Island: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Performance," Disability Studies Quarterly (Fall 2005).

"Renegotiating Corporeality and Alterity: Carnal Inscription as Jewishness in David Toscana's Santa María del Circo and Mario Vargas Llosa's El hablador" Hispania 88.2 (2005): 267-277.

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