German A. Garrido

German Garrido


Associate Professor
Modern Languages

EMAIL: ggarrido@bmcc.cuny.edu

Office: S-601F

Office Hours: Mondays (1:45 - 3:15 p.m.), Thursdays. (3:45 - 5:15 p.m.), and by appointment (ggarrido@bmcc.cuny.edu)

Phone: +1 (212) 220-8000;ext=5279

Professor Germán Garrido’s work explores the links between literature and LGBTQ activism in Latin America and in the US Latinx community, with a focus on the 1970s and 1980s. He specifically studies the ways in which queer communities plotted their own planetary coordinates, beyond national cultures and territories through novels, poems, chronicles, and LGBTQ activist magazines, as a result of their displacement from their homelands’ norms and imaginaries. He also explores how different Latin(x) American LGBTQ movements interacted with one another, the transnational networks they developed, and the kind of cosmopolitanism or internationalism they engaged in.

Professor Garrido’s research fields include queer theory, transnational studies, and 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literatures and cultures. His essays have appeared in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, El lugar sin límites: Revista de Estudios y Políticas de Género, and Escena: Revista de las Artes de la Universidad de Costa Rica, among other peer-reviewed academic journals, and in The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature (Ileana Rodríguez and Mónica Szurmuk, eds., Cambridge UP, 2015). He also contributed to the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (Macmillan Reference, 2019) and is currently preparing a book titled The International of Sin: The Queer Cosmopolitics of Copi, Néstor Perlongher, and María Moreno (1971-1992).

Before joining BMCC, Professor Garrido was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University.

Expertise

Spanish; Latin American, U.S. Latinx, Spanish, and Caribbean studies, with a specialization in 20th-21st century Southern Cone and Brazilian literatures and cultures; queer theory; LGBTQ studies; transnational studies.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, New York University, 2017.
  • Licenciado en Letras (B.A. in Literature), Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2010.

Courses Taught

SPN 105
SPN 105 (Elementary Spanish I)
SPN 106
SPN 106 (Elementary Spanish II)
SPN 107
SPN 107 (Elementary Spanish for Speakers of Spanish I)
SPN 108
SPN 108 (Elementary Spanish for Speakers of Spanish II)
SPN 200
SPN 200 (Intermediate Spanish I)
SPN 472
SPN 472 (Literature, Culture and Civilization of the Greater Antilles)
SPN 371
SPN 371 (Literature and Civilization of Spain)
SPN 410
SPN 410 (Latin American Theater)

Research and Projects

Professor Garrido’s current book project, The International of Sin: The Queer Cosmopolitics of Copi, Néstor Perlongher, and María Moreno (1971-1992), explores the aesthetic and political potentials of traveling and migrant queer communities, examining these writers’ literary output alongside their involvement in queer and feminist activism.

Publications

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

  • “The World in Question: A Cosmopolitical Approach to Gay/Homosexual Liberation Movements in/and the ‘Third World’ (From Argentina to the United States).” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 27: 3 (June 2021): 279-406.

https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8994098

  • “Agitación interna y milagro cósmico: Literatura y droga en César Aira y Cecilia Pavón.” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 50: 1 (May 2021): 187-204.
  • “Cosmopolíticas feministas: De Alfonsina a El Affair Skeffington.” In El Affair Moreno: Ensayos críticos sobre María Moreno. Eds. Viviane Mahieux, Mariela Méndez Coudriet, and Claudia Darrigrandi Navarro. Buenos Aires: Mansalva, 2020. 73-97.  
  • “Entre locas y argentinxs: Copi y la comunidad que viene.” El Lugar sin Límites: Revista de Estudios y Políticas de Género 1: 2 (November 2019): 72-91. http://revistas.untref.edu.ar/index.php/ellugar/article/view/371
  • “Una comedia de la muerte: Copi y sus profanaciones del sida.” Escena: Revista de las Artes de la Universidad de Costa Rica 78: 2 (January 2019): 71-91. https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/escena/article/view/35594
  • “Nostro Mundo: espacios extraordinarios en la poesía de Néstor Perlongher.” Catedral Tomada: Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism 4.7 178-212.

https://catedraltomada.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/catedraltomada/article/view/194

  • Co-authored with Gabriel Giorgi. “Dissident Cosmopolitanisms.” In The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature. Eds. Ileana Rodríguez and Mónica Szurmuk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 261-277.
  • “La historia y sus voces: El mundo alucinante de Reinaldo Arenas.” Cuarto Propio: Revista de estudios literarios de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo 4, 2008. 

EDITOR

BOOK CHAPTERS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, AND EDITORIAL INTRODUCTIONS

  • “Imaginarios planetarios en la cultura latinoamericana,” in Chuy: Revista de Estudios Literarios Latinoamericanos 8: 10 (July 2021): 1-9. 

http://revistas.untref.edu.ar/index.php/chuy/article/view/1149/935

  • “Argentina’s Gender Identity Law.” In Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History. Eds. Howard Chiang, Anjali Arondekar, Marc Epprecht, Jennifer Evans, Ross Forman, Hanadi Al-Samman, Emily Skidmore, Zeb Tortorici. Farmington Hills: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2019. 118-123.
  • “Cuerpos del pop porteño: las poses desobedientes de Alfredo Arias y su grupo TSE en los sesenta argentinos.” In Fragmentos de lo Queer. Arte en América Latina. Ed. Lucas Martinelli. Buenos Aires: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2016. 274-300.

INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS

Honors, Awards and Affiliations

PSC-CUNY Award, Type A, Cycle 52: “Out of the Closet, Out in the World: Pa’fuera! and The Cosmopolitics of Gay Liberation in 1970s Puerto Rico,” 2021-2022.

PSC-CUNY Award, Type A, Cycle 51: “The World in Question: The Legacies of New York’s and Buenos Aires’s Decolonial Queer Movements,” 2020-2021.

Finalist for a BMCC Distinguished Teaching Award, Spring 2019. (Finalist, not granted)

Penfield Fellowship, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University, 2016.

Outstanding Teaching Award, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University, 2015.

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Travel Grant, New York University, 2015.

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Travel Grant, New York University, 2014.

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Summer Grant, New York University, 2013.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, New York University, 2013

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, New York University, 2012.

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Tinker Summer Travel Grant, Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, 2011.

MacCracken doctoral fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University, 2010-2015.

Additional Information

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

INVITED SPEAKER

  • Participation in the round table discussion on the GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies special issue “Queer/Cuir Américas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable,” virtual, October 14, 2021. 
  • “El legado de Stonewall en América Latin”, public lecture in “28 de junio: Del estallido a la celebración,” a symposium organized by Moléculas Malucas: Archivos y memorias fuera del margen (Argentina), virtual, June 28, 2021. 
  • “Concepciones del mundo: Cosmopolíticas queer e imaginarios planetarios,” inaugural public lecture for the 2021 academic year of the Masters Program in Latin American Studies,  Universidad de Tres de Febrero virtual, March 17, 2021.

https://youtu.be/It2S4GoIFrQ

  • “Queer Revolutions in/and the Third World,” public lecture, New York University Comparative Literature Department, October 19, 2020. 
  • “María Moreno: Una impersonalidad”, introductory public lecture, prior to María Moreno’s public lecture and my interview with María Moreno, at “María Moreno at New York University: Lecture, Interview, and Workshop,” King Juan Carlos Center, New York University, October 26, 2018.  
  • “El género y la sexualidad en mi trabajo académico,” public lecture in “El silencio interrumpido: escrituras de mujeres en América Latina” Colloquium, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, August 3, 2016. 

CONFERENCES

  • “Conceição do Mundo: Copi y la revuelta de las amazonas/la Amazonía.” XL International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA 2022: Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias, San Francisco/virtual, May 5-8, 2022. (Forthcoming)
  • “Third World Gay Revolution: Ideales de liberación a escala planetaria.” XXXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA 2021: Crisis global, desigualdades y centralidad de la vida, virtual, May 26-29, 2021.
  • “Somos: Literatura y comunidad en la primera revista homosexual argentina.” Northeast Modern Language Association 51st Annual Convention, Boston, March 5-8, 2020.
  • “Transnational Affective Networks in the Work of María Moreno.” III Simposio de la Sección de Estudios del Cono Sur: Cuerpos en peligro: Minorías y migrantes, organized by the Latin American Studies Association, Buenos Aires, July 10-13, 2019. 
  • “La poesía como poiesis comunitaria: El rol de Néstor Perlongher en la conformación de un contrapúblico homosexual en la revista Somos (1973-1976).” XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA 2021: Nuestra América: Justice and Inclusion, Boston, May 24-27, 2019. 
  • “No se lo digas a nadie: El rol de lo efímero en los archivos queer de Néstor Perlongher y María Moreno.” XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA 2018: Latin American Studies in a Globalized World, Barcelona, May 23-26, 2018.
  • “‘El mundo entero había dejado de ser como antes’: cosmopolíticas queer e imaginación transformadora en la narrativa de Copi.” XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA 2016: LASA at 50, New York, May 27-30, 2016. 
  • “Néstor Perlongher’s Anti-Paris Diatribe and his Dissident Cosmopolitanism.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Cambridge, March 17-20, 2016. 
  • “Cuerpos del pop porteño: las poses desobedientes del Grupo TSE (Alfredo Arias, Juan Stoppani y Roberto Plate).” XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA 2015: Precariedades, exclusiones, emergencias, San Juan, May 27-30, 2015. 
  • “Mothernist Communities: María Moreno’s Apocryphal Cosmopolitanism.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, Seattle, March 26-28, 2015. 
  • “Lo nacional enrarecido: (des)figuraciones de la patria en la obra de Sylvia Molloy y Copi.” XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA: Democracy and Memory, Chicago, May 21-24, 2014. 
  • “Queering el Instituto Di Tella: Escenas de una contracultura en traducción.” “Critical Pornographies” Symposium, New York University, May 1-2, 2014.
  • “Paris is Burning: Revisiting the City of Light through the Queer (Neo)cosmopolitan Narratives of Copi and Néstor Perlongher.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, New York, March 20-23, 2014. 
  • “Nación y cosmopolitismo en la narrativa de Sylvia Molloy y Néstor Perlongher.” “Sur Queer: Nuevas articulaciones en América Latina” Workshop, New York University, October 4, 2013.  
  • “Entre locas y argentinos: Copi y la comunidad que viene.” XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA: Towards a New Social Contract?, Washington DC, May 29-June 1, 2013. 
  • “Cosmopolíticas del deseo: cruces culturales y cartografías alternativas en las narrativas de Severo Sarduy y Copi.” New York University-Columbia Graduate Students Conference, New York University, April 27, 2013. 
  • “Crossing Borders, Crossing Disciplines: TSE’s Itinerary from Buenos Aires to Paris.” “Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970” Symposium at La Maison Française of the New York University, February 3, 2012. 
  • “El hombre invisible: mirada y terror en Frankenstein de Mary Shelley.” Terceras Jornadas Internacionales de Cultura y Literatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina. October 2-4, 2008. 

ORGANIZER

  • “Imaginarios planetarios en la cultura latinoamericana y latino-estadounidense I” and “Imaginarios planetarios en la cultura latinoamericana y latino-estadounidense II,” chair and double session organizer, XXXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA 2021: Crisis global, desigualdades y centralidad de la vida, virtual, May 26-29, 2021. 
  • “Contrapúblicos latinos y latinoamericanos,” chair and session organizer, XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA 2021: Nuestra América: Justice and Inclusion, Boston, May 24-27, 2019. 
  • “Can We Buy Masculinity? A Queer History of the Purchase of Sex during the Twentieth Century,” organizer and respondent, with Guest Speaker Dr. Patricio Simonetto, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. September 26, 2019. 
  • “Sexo y Revolución: A Talk about the Radical Homosexual Movements of 1970s Latin America,” organizer and respondent, with Guest Speaker Dr. Patricio Simonetto, CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY. September 24, 2018. (See Community Service).
  • “Colloquium Series on Pedagogy,” co-organizer, Core Curriculum, New York University, four sessions in Fall 2017. 
  • “Concepciones del mundo: repensando el kosmos y la polis de los cosmopolitismos latinoamericanos,” organizer and session chair, XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA: LASA at 50, New York, May 27–30, 2016.
  • “El juego de Copi: Taller con Daniel Link,” co-organizer and presenter alongside Sylvia Molloy, October 15, 2014, New York University.
  • “Literary Autonomy and its Vicissitudes: Conference by Josefina Ludmer,” co-organizer, September 27, 2012, New York University.
  • “Hugo Santiago at New York University: A Conversation with Graduate Students,” co-organizer, September 20, 2011, New York University.