Irina Dzero
Biography
I study the figure of the father as a metaphor of predatory leadership in Latin American cinema, fiction and nonfiction. I examine the same topic in Russian literature, film, and social media. Publications On Russian music and literature: 鈥淧ussy Riot and Translatability of Cultures.鈥� Transcultural Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (Fall 2017): 264-286. 鈥淎 Fly in the Soup: Gibberish in Russia as Aesthetic Resistance.鈥� Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (Spring 2021). On Latin American film and fiction: 鈥淟a fiesta del chivo, Novel and Film, on the Transition to Democracy in Latin America.鈥� Latin American Research Review, vol. 51, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 85-100. 鈥淟arra铆n鈥檚 Film No and Its Inspiration El plebiscito: Chile鈥檚 Transition to Democracy as a Simulacrum.鈥� Confluencia, vol. 31, no. 1 (Fall 2015): 120-132. 鈥淪ex Worker Rights in Pantale贸n y las visitadoras, A Recent Adaptation of an Old Novel.鈥� Hispanic Journal, vol. 37, no. 2 (2016): 31-46. 鈥淐lientelism and the Transition to Democracy in Mexico in Film Adaptations.鈥� Peripherica, Spring 2021. 鈥淪o Many Bol铆vars: The Liberator as a Good and False Founding Father in Colombia and Venezuela.鈥� (In review) 鈥淭he Children and the Bad Father: Conceptualizing Governance Through Film in Brazil.鈥� (In review) 鈥淭he Puccio Case: The Father-Torturer next Door and Other Unrepentant Perpetrators in Argentina.鈥� (In review) 鈥淔reedom, Free Market, and Precarious Jobs in Chile in the Film Adaptation of Subterra.鈥� (In review) 鈥淎ggressive Masculinities and Rape in Peruvian Film Adaptations鈥� (In review). On French and francophone fiction: 鈥淢aryse Cond茅鈥檚 Heremakhonon as a Noir Novel.鈥� Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, vol. 31, no. 1 (2015). 鈥淭wo Faces of Progress in 19th-century French Novel.鈥� The French Review, vol. 88, no. 2 (2014): 103-120. 鈥淢eanings of Hybridity: Rabelaisian Laughter in Aim茅 C茅saire鈥檚 Discours sur le colonialism.鈥� The French Review, vol. 85, no. 1 (2011): 102-114. On French Renaissance literature: 鈥淓xile or Escape? Frame Narratives in Boccaccio鈥檚 Decameron and Marguerite de Navarre鈥檚 Heptameron.鈥� Topodynamics of Arrival: Essays on Self and Pilgrimage, Rodopi, 2012, 169-183. 鈥淔our Circles of Love in Marot鈥檚 Temple of Cupid.鈥� Romance Notes, vol. 51, no. 3 (2011): 363-370. 鈥淨uill Pen in a Funeral Oration: Cl茅ment Marot Appropriates the Ancient Genre.鈥� Renaissance and Reformation, vol. 33, no. 2 (2010): 43-61. 鈥淪tep Up, Step Down: The Path to Perfection in Marguerite de Navarre鈥檚 Prisons.鈥� Biblioth猫que d鈥橦umanisme et Renaissance, vol. 71, no. 3 (2009): 457-473. Book manuscripts in progress: Predatory Leadership in Latin American Cinema of the 21st Century.
