Together, they establish what I call a two-way mimesis, through which perceptions on environmental realities affect literary representation as much as environments represented in fiction affect perceptions of and actions upon the environment. I propose that the environments where these novels are set are represented not only on the level of content but also through the literary form of the books themselves, and that, at the same time, these novels have participated in the creation of environmental imaginations whose impact on referential reality can be concretely perceived. My current book project, 'Environmental Fictions: Mimesis and Deforestation in Latin America,' analyzes the complex relationship between literary representation and environment in Latin American fiction by focusing on seven mid-twentieth-century regionalist novels by authors from Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Paraguay, and Peru. I work in the intersection of ecocriticism and fiction theory, and am interested in theoretical approaches to the representation of forest and rural areas in Latin American fiction. My research covers twentieth- and twenty-first century Latin American literature with a focus on Brazil. degrees in Luso-Brazilian Literature and Portuguese Language from the State University of Rio de Janeiro.

in Iberian and Latin American Cultures from Stanford University, as well as B.A. Phone Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies

Assistant Professor in Brazilian Literature Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies Undergraduate Adviser

Glória by Victor Heringer