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Gisela Heffes

@giselaheffes

Gisela Heffes is a writer and professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at Rice University.

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I am so honored to read the first review of Auslöschungen / Extinctions / Extinciones 🐳🐳🐳published by parasitenpresse ❤️ Many thanks to Adrian Kasnitz + Rike Bolte + Magazin Buchkultur for making it happen!

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On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 7 PM EST I will be reading at The Writers’RoomoBoston (The Writers’ Room of Boston) excerpts from my first novel #Ischia (Deep Vellum Books ) with Eliza Macdonald! The event will be hosted by Spencer Storey Johnson and you can register in the link below.

On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 7 PM EST I will be reading at The Writers’RoomoBoston (<a href="/writers_boston/">The Writers’ Room of Boston</a>) excerpts from my first novel #Ischia (<a href="/deepvellumbooks/">Deep Vellum Books</a> ) with Eliza Macdonald! The event will be hosted by <a href="/Sirspence777/">Spencer Storey Johnson</a> and you can register in the link below.
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Today! Looking forward to reading and discussing #Ischia (Deep Vellum / Deep Vellum Books at the Writers’ Room of Boston with Eliza Macdonald! The event will take place at 7 PM and will be hosted by Spencer Storey Johnson. Register here: eventbrite.com/.../writers-ro…...

Today! Looking forward to reading and discussing #Ischia (<a href="/DeepVellum/">Deep Vellum</a>  / <a href="/deepvellumbooks/">Deep Vellum Books</a>  at the Writers’ Room of Boston with Eliza Macdonald! The event will take place at 7 PM and will be hosted by Spencer Storey Johnson. Register here:
eventbrite.com/.../writers-ro…...
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Today, Futures in the Face of Ruin: An Environmental Humanities Conversation, with Jane Bennett, Marina Bedrán, Harris Feinsod, Anand Pandian, and Jordan Tierney: thepeale.org/event/futures-…

Today, Futures in the Face of Ruin: An Environmental Humanities Conversation, with Jane Bennett, Marina Bedrán, Harris Feinsod, Anand Pandian, and Jordan Tierney: thepeale.org/event/futures-…
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Thank you Carla Giaudrone, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, and Voces de la Communidad for the invitation to storytelling in and with the community ❤️

Thank you Carla Giaudrone, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, and Voces de la Communidad for the invitation to storytelling in and with the community ❤️
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If you can make it today, please join us for an engaging talk today and a poetry workshop tomorrow (details below) by environmental humanities scholar and poet Valeria Meiller, and feel free to share this with anyone interested in attending! #Abiyala #Ecopoetry #environmental

If you can make it today, please join us for an engaging talk today and a poetry workshop tomorrow (details below) by environmental humanities scholar and poet Valeria Meiller, and feel free to share this with anyone interested in attending! #Abiyala #Ecopoetry #environmental
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Super excited to see #Ischia (Deep Vellum Books / Deep Vellum ) featured by the interviewer and book reviewer Lisa Haselton's Blog ❤️ lisahaselton.com/category/autho…

Super excited to see #Ischia (<a href="/deepvellumbooks/">Deep Vellum Books</a> / <a href="/DeepVellum/">Deep Vellum</a> ) featured by the interviewer and book reviewer Lisa Haselton's Blog ❤️
 lisahaselton.com/category/autho…
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4d I recently visited Rutgers University—Camden to conduct a workshop about storytelling in the Age of the Anthropocene and share insights regarding making #Ungabineteparaelfuturo –Thank you Carla Giaudrone, Jillian Sayr and Voces de la Comunidad 🧡 facebook.com/share/p/1C11t8…

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I recently visited Rutgers University—Camden to conduct a workshop about storytelling in the Age of the Anthropocene and share insights regarding making #Ungabineteparaelfuturo –Thank you Carla Giaudrone, Jillian Sayr and Voces de la Comunidad 🧡 facebook.com/share/p/1C11t8…
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Today! I am super honored and thrilled to deliver today the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI)’s New Faculty Lecture on Nutritive Aesthetics: Knitting Gardens of Hope in Contemporary Latin America. The talk is open to the public and will be followed by a reception 🌷🌿🍄

Today! I am super honored and thrilled to deliver today the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI)’s New Faculty Lecture on Nutritive Aesthetics: Knitting Gardens of Hope in Contemporary Latin America. The talk is open to the public and will be followed by a reception 🌷🌿🍄
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Postcards from my recent visit to Duke University, where I discussed gauchos, the “desert,” the Argentine pampas, and human/nonhuman extinction. So happy to see old and new friends and to spend time with Gustavo Furtado, Esther Gabara, Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, and Christine Folch ❤️ A TREAT

Postcards from my recent visit to <a href="/DukeU/">Duke University</a>, where I discussed gauchos, the  “desert,” the Argentine pampas, and human/nonhuman extinction. So happy to see old and new friends and to spend time with Gustavo Furtado, Esther Gabara, Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, and Christine Folch ❤️ A TREAT
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Dear friends, Homi Bhabha will deliver the Richard A. Macksey Lecture today on "Living the Afterlife: Race, Trauma, Time" at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute of Johns Hopkins University University. Everyone is welcome to attend 👇

Dear friends, Homi Bhabha will deliver the Richard A. Macksey Lecture today on "Living the Afterlife: Race, Trauma, Time" at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute of <a href="/JohnsHopkins/">Johns Hopkins University</a> University. Everyone is welcome to attend 👇
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Finally, the translation of El cero móvil de su boca • The Mobile Zero of Its Mouth to Swedish has come to fruition! I am immensely thankful to PetronellaZetterlund for her outstanding work!

Finally, the translation of El cero móvil de su boca • The Mobile Zero of Its Mouth to Swedish has come to fruition! I am immensely thankful to <a href="/PetronellaZette/">PetronellaZetterlund</a> for her outstanding work!
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If you read, speak, or understand Swedish, don't miss Ingela Johansson's excellent interview and review of my poetry collection, "Det som är kvar," in Magasin Opulent! The superb translation was by Petronella Zetterlund. 💚💫🌷 opulens.se/litteratur/gis…

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"¿Qué queda de un padre cuando muere? ¿Qué queda del verano cuando se acerca el otoño? " Estas son algunas preguntas que se plantea la escritora argentina Gisela Heffes en su poemario "El cero móvil de su boca" que recién ha sido traducido al sueco. literalmagazine.com/nos-aferramos-…

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Hermosa reseña de Ingela Johansson a propósito de la excelente traducción de #Elceromóvildesuboca al sueco por PetronellaZetterlund: con mucho agradecimiento a Literal Magazine + Rose Mary Salum + katakana editores por acoger el poemario en su fase inicial 🐬