Nicola Gavioli

Degrees

Areas of Expertise and Research Interests

• Brazilian and Portuguese 20th and 21st century novels
• Literature and medicine
• Memory Studies, War, and Witness Literature
• Human rights and activism in contemporary Brazilian culture
• Disability in Brazilian literature and cinema
• Novels by António Lobo Antunes
• The Novel in World Literature
• Translations Studies
• Film Studies
• Comparative Literature
• Literature and the mind

Selected Publications

Edited Book
Gavioli, Nicola and Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho, co-editors. Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil. New York: Routledge (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature), 2017. Paperback edition (2020).

Guest Editor (academic journal)

Gavioli, Nicola (eds.). "Graciliano Ramos." Monographic issue of Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies Journal. 12. https://sbps.spanport.ucsb.edu/volume/12

Guest Editor (academic journal)
Gavioli, Nicola and Bruno Sales (eds.). “António Lobo Antunes”. Monographic issue of Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies Journal. https://sbps.spanport.ucsb.edu/volume/6

Book chapters

Gavioli, Nicola. " 'Ela anda muito esquecida: Cair para dentro de Valério Romão." AIL (Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas) forthcoming volume. 

Gavioli, Nicola (and Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho). "On Behalf of the ‘Here and Now.'" In: Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil. New York: Routledge, 2017.

Gavioli, Nicola. "Mythicizing Disability: The Life and Opinions of (what is left of) Estamira." In: Libre Acceso. Ed. Susan Antebi and Beth E. Jörgensen. Albany: SUNY, 2016.

Academic Articles

Gavioli, Nicola. “A ‘tecnificação’ da ‘alma’ e a bomba: apontamentos sobre a correspondência entre Günther Anders e Claude Eatherly.” Revista brasileira de literatura comparada. Vol. 25, n. 48. 2023 < https://revista.abralic.org.br/index.php/revista> 

Gavioli, Nicola. “Jorge de Sena e a linguagem do mal.” Cem anos de Jorge de Sena. Itinerários: Portugal, Brasil, Estados Unidos. Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies. vol. 7.<https://sbps.spanport.ucsb.edu/volume/7> 2021

Gavioli, Nicola. “Memory Loss, the Animal Gaze, and the Struggle for a Biographical Life in Para aquela que está sentada no escuro à minha espera by António Lobo Antunes” Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies Journal. vol. 6. pp. 95-106. <https://sbps.spanport.ucsb.edu/volume/6> 2020       

Gavioli, Nicola. “Performances e reportagens da aniquilação.” Literatura e autoritarismo:  A experiência do confinamento. 31 Eds. Lisa Vasconcellos, Daniela Birman, and Rita Palmeira. Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, pp. 77-98 [Portuguese version of the essay “Contemporary Nonfiction Writing on Catastrophe: Marco Paolini’s Ausmerzen and Daniela Arbex’s Holocausto brasileiro” published in Chasqui. 46.1].  (2018).   

Gavioli, Nicola. "Bioethical Issues in Contemporary Brazilian Culture: Euthanasia and Literature." Luso-Brazilian Review. Vol. 54. 2. (2017): 129-151. Print.

Gavioli, Nicola. "Performances e reportagens da aniquilação." Literatura e autoritarismo. Eds. Lisa Vasconcellos, Daniela Birman, and Rita Palmeira. Forthcoming in Fall 2017.

Gavioli, Nicola. "Contemporary Nonfiction Writing on Catastrophe. Marco Paolini's Ausmerzen and Daniela Arbex's Holocausto brasileiro." Chasqui - revista de literatura latinoamericana. May 2017. Print.

Gavioli, Nicola. "Na sala de edição: ‘Mãe judia, 1964' de Moacyr Scliar." Estudos de literatura brasileira contemporânea. 43. Special issue on ‘Literatura e ditadura.' (2014): 99-110. Print.

Gavioli, Nicola. "Archeology of a Delirium: Machado de Assis and Giacomo Leopardi." Espelho: Revista Machadiana 14/15 2008-09 (published 2012): 7-17. Print.

Gavioli, Nicola. "A Poetic System Against the Abyss: Fernando Pessoa's Heteronyms and Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety." Revista Letras. Paraná (Brazil) 82 2010 (published 2011): 237-246. Print.

Gavioli, Nicola. "Sebald's Still Life Devices against Interpretations: an Explanation of Austerlitz through Cortazar's and Antonioni's Cameras." Mester 36 (2007): 109-122. Print.

Gavioli, Nicola. "Eclipse e despedida: representações da doença de Alzheimer na cultura brasileira contemporânea." XV ABRALIC. On-line: "Anais XV encontro Abralic." 2017.

Gavioli, Nicola. "Delirio y alcohol en la narrativa de la Guerra Colonial de António Lobo Antunes."Aguas Santas de la Creación: Congreso Internacional Bebida y Literatura. II. Ed. Sara Poot-Herrera. Merida: Dirección de Cultura del Ayuntamiento de Merida, 2010. 197-205. Print.

Gavioli, Nicola. "Eça de Queirós e António Lobo Antunes: dois escritores de Lisboa." Encruzilhadas / Crossroads. Symposium Journal. Ed. Claude Hulet. 2009. 159-164. Print.

Gavioli, Nicola. "Furnished Souls: Testimony and Art of Memory in Cristina Rivera- Garza's Nadie Me Verá Llorar and Alda Merini's Poetic Prose." Ed. Sara Poot-Herrera, Francisco A. Lomeli and Maria Herrera-Sobek. Cien años de Lealtad en Honor a Luis Leal. I. Mexico: Oro de la Noche. 2007. 727-39. Print.

Reviews
Gavioli, Nicola. “A comunidade desejada na obra de Luiz Ruffato.” Review of Minha primeira vez. Chasqui http://chasquirll.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Chasqui-Reviews-Nov2019.pdf

Gavioli, Nicola. “Coerência como resistência.” Review of Academic Journal Teresa n.17 (“Autoritarismo e violência”). Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros. 67. USP, Brazil, 2017. https://www.revistas.usp.br/rieb/article/view/137575/133202. Web.

Gavioli, Nicola. Review of Um solitário à espreita: crônicas by Milton Hatoum. (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2013). Texto Híbridos: Revista de estudios sobre la crónica latinoamericana. https://textoshibridosblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/gavioli.pdf. Web.

Gavioli, Nicola. Review of La Resistenza continua. Il colonialismo portoghese, le lotte di liberazione e gli intellettuali italiani by Vincenzo Russo. Portuguese Studies. 37.1. (2021)

Literary Interviews
Gavioli, Nicola. “Elogio do realismo: um encontro com Luiz Ruffato." Chasqui. http://chasquirll.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Chasqui-Reviews-Nov2019.pdf

Gavioli, Nicola. “‘A gente não mergulha no mundo do outro impunemente:’ uma conversa com Eliane Brum.” Journal of Lusophone Studies Vol. 2. No. 2 (Fall 2017). https://jls.apsa.us/index.php/jls/article/view/175 Web.

Gavioli, Nicola and Omar Miranda-Flores. “El libro es un trampolín que el lector utiliza para saltar dentro de sí mismo.” Interview with Cristina Rivera-Garza. Quimera. (2011): 14-21. Print.

Gavioli, Nicola and Omar Miranda-Flores. “Las Costuras de la Escritura, Fragmentos de una Entrevista a Cristina Rivera Garza.” Ventana Abierta, Revista Latina de Literatura, Arte y Cultura 27 (2009): 54–58. Print.

Gavioli Nicola and Omar Miranda-Flores. “O romance tem um caminho esplendoroso.” Interview with Rui Zink. Tinta. Research journal for Spanish, Lusophone, and Latin American Literatures and Cultures 10 (Spring/Autumn 2010).

Translation Support

Current Research Projects

Volumes
Single-authored book on Memory Loss in Contemporary Brazilian and Portuguese cultures

Academic Articles

Gavioli, Nicola. Essay on Alzheimer’s disease in a corpus of contemporary novels [scholarly essay]

Invited Talks

Keynote Speaker (panel). "Fi-Sci Analogies: Designing Interdisciplinary Curricula with Narrative Theory" International Conference on Narrative. Dallas, Texas. (March). 2023

“75 Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz: The Legacy of Primo Levi.” Holocaust Education Week. Miami Beach Regional Library. January 2020.

“Jorge de Sena e a linguagem do mal.” Colloquium “100 Years of Jorge de Sena.” University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). November 2019.

"Bioethics and Bare Life in Contemporary Brazil: Literary Representations of End-of-Life Issues, Literary Journalism, and Disability Studies." Lake Erie Latin American Cultural Studies group meeting. “Disability Studies in Latin America.” University of Rochester. September 2017.

“Contemporary Nonfiction Writing on Catastrophe.” “Romance Studies Speakers Series.” Duke University, March 2017.

Keynote speaker. Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference: Weapons of Social Justice: Reinvention through Language, Literature, and Culture. UCLA, Los Angeles, April 2016.

“Bioethical Issues in Contemporary Brazilian Culture.” School of International Letters and Cultures. Tempe, Arizona State University. February 2016.

Public Lecture. “Primo Levi: The Saved Word.” Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach. Holocaust Education Week. February 2016.

“Contemporary Brazilian Fiction and Urban Conflicts.” Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. April 2014.

“Ethics, Documentary Filmmaking and Disability in Latin America: A Brazilian Case Study.” FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center Research Methods Seminar. March 2013.

“Youth on the Margins: the Appropriation of the Coming-of-Age Novel as a Seminal Event in Brazilian Imagination.” The Hispanic Institute at Columbia University. February 2011.

Funding

Honors and Awards

Co-Recipient (with my colleagues of Portuguese at FIU) of the Outstanding Institution Promoting Portuguese Language AOTP Annual Brazilian International Press Awards. 2012, 2014, and 2015

Nominated by the UCSB Spanish and Portuguese Department for the Outstanding Graduate Student Central Award. University of California Santa Barbara. 2010.

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award 2009 (University of California Santa Barbara. Department of Spanish and Portuguese.