Barco, Nicole

Guest Editor of Special Issue 

Capital Crimes in the Americas, special issue of The Forum for Inter-American Research 10.1 (May 2017). http://interamerica.de/ 

Book Chapters 

“To Be or Not to Be Human: The Plasticity of Posthuman Rights.” Human Rights in the Americas. Routledge, 2021: 283-294. 

“‘We Are the World, We Are the Children’: 1980s World Literature Bears Witness to U.S.-American Exceptionalism and Imperialism.” American Literature in Transition: 1980-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017: 239-255.

Refereed Journal Articles 

“Can the Fetus Speak?: Revolutionary Wombs, Body Politics, and Feminist Philosophy.” New Encounters between Philosophy and Literature II, special issue of Humanities 7.24 (2018): 1-26.  

http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/1/24/htm 

“Capital Crimes in the Americas.” Capital Crimes in the Americas, special issue of The Forum for Inter-American Research 10.1 (May 2017): 5-12. http://interamerica.de/ 

“Difficult to Digest: Rubem Fonseca’s ‘Intestino Grosso’ [‘Large Intestine’] as a Scatological Theory of Crime Fiction.” Capital Crimes in the Americas, special issue of The Forum for Inter-American Research. 10.1 (May 2017): 87-102. http://interamerica.de/ 

“La ciencia de género según Angélica Gorodischer” [“The science of gender/genre according to Angélica Gorodischer”]. La ciencia ficción en América Latina: Aproximaciones teóricas al imaginario de la experimentación cultural [Science fiction in Latin America: Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Experimentation in the Imaginary], special issue of Revista Iberoamericana Vol. LXXXIII (Abril-Septiembre 2017) Núms. 259-260: 657-672.   

“Without a Conceivable Future: Figuring the Mother in Children of Men.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 35.1 (2014): 160-180.  

“Mothers of Afrolatinidad: Dislocating New World Identities in Latino/a Studies and African American Studies.” Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective. Inter-American Studies/Estudios Interamericanos Series. 5 (April 2012): 153-176.  

“Deauthorizing Anthropologies and ‘Authenticating’ Landscapes in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Diamela Eltit's El cuarto mundo.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 38.3 (September 2011): 1-25.  

“Entre lo físico y lo metafísico: una interpretación alquímica de Cien años de soledad de Gabriel García Márquez.” [“Between the physical and the metaphysical: an alchemical interpretation of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez”] Revista de Estudios Hispánicos [Journal of Hispanic Studies] 44.1 (Marzo 2010): 169-191.  

Reprint 

“Difficult to Digest: Rubem Fonseca’s ‘Intestino Grosso’ [‘Large Intestine’] as a Scatological Theory of Crime Fiction.” Capital Crimes in the Americas, special issue of The Forum for Inter-American Research. 10.1 (May 2017): 87-102. Short Story Criticism, vol. 270. Gale, 2019, pp. 210-219. 

Presentations

Award Finalist for Excellence in Education Abroad. “Creative Program Design: Examples from the Field.” The Forum on Education Abroad Annual Conference. Seattle, WA. March 14-15, 22-24, 2023.  

“Emergent Epistemologies and Metaphysical Mysteries: Transnational/Transcultural Modernism in Urban Detective Fiction” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. April 8-11, 2021. 

“Do the Posthuman Have Rights?” International Conference on Global Human Rights, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD. October 4-6, 2018. 

“Latinx Futures: How Pedro Aguilera’s Brazilian Netflix series 3% merits a new Latinidad.” International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, Spain, May 23-26, 2018. 

Invited “Flash-forward” participant. ACL(x): Extra-disciplinarity, an American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. September 23-24, 2016. 

Invited Roundtable Participant, “Panel on Program Design” at Harvard University’s Institute for World Literature, Lisbon, Portugal. June 22-July 17, 2015. 

“Do you believe in magic?: Yamashita’s Magical Realism as Human Ecology in the Era of Globalization.” International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-30, 2015. 

“Transcorporality is the New Black, or Re-fashioning a Black Feminist Aesthetic.” Black to the Future: Black Culture through Space and Time. Purdue University African American Culture and History Symposium, Purdue University, November 20-22, 2014. 

“Rubem Fonseca’s Scatological “Large Intestine” as an Aesthetic Theory of Crime Fiction.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, New York University, March 20-23, 2014. 

“Can the Fetus Speak?: The Literary Rhetoric of Fetal Personhood and Human Rights.” Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences International Conference. Central Michigan University. November 21-23, 2013. 

“The Aftermath of Negative Eugenics in Late Twentieth Century American Science Fiction.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Brown University, March 29-April1, 2012. 

Roundtable Participant. “Necro-Americas: Borders, Biopolitics, and Civic Subjectivities since 9/11.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, October 20-23, 2011. 

“Octavia Butler's Fledgling: Fantasy as an “Other” Pedagogy in Lessons on Gender, Race, and Sexuality.” Celebrating African American Literature: Race, Sexuality, and African American Literature, Pennsylvania State University, September 30-October 1, 2011.  

“The Science of Gender and Genre in Angélica Gorodischer’s ‘Embriones del violeta’” International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, October 6-9, 2010. 

“Figures of the National Imagination: The Art and Science of Bodily Metaphors.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1-4, 2010. 

Roundtable Participant, “Hope, Fate, and Foreclosure: Toni Morrison's A Mercy and The Emergence of Inter-disciplinary Knowledges in a Women's (Academic) Book Club.” Celebrating Contemporary African American Literature: The Novel since 1988. Pennsylvania State University, October 23-24, 2009. 

“Revolutionary Wombs and the Body Politic.” International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 11-14, 2009.  

“Entre lo físico y lo metafísico: una interpretación alquímica de Cien años de soledad.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Puebla, Mexico, April 19-22, 2007. 

“Deauthorizing Anthropologies and ‘Authenticating’ Landscapes.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006. 

“When the Grotesque Touch and the Thorn Pricks: Progressive Visions of Sherwood Anderson and Mary Hunter Austin.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Pennsylvania State University, March 11-13, 2005. 

“Revolutionary Spaces: Ordering Chaos and Rationalizing Spirit in Alejo Carpentier’s Explosion in a Cathedral (El siglo de las luces).” Art, Nature, Hill: Engaging Jean-Jacques Rousseau. PSU Graduate Student Conference, February 13-14, 2004.

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a Graduate Minor in Women and Gender Studies (The Pennsylvania State University, 2009)

M.A. in Comparative Literature (The Pennsylvania State University, 2004)

B.S. in Accounting and Spanish Language & Literature (Nazareth College of Rochester, 2001)