Mauro Lazarovich

Mauro Lazarovich

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Research Interests: 20th- and 21st-century Latin American Literature and Cultural History; Migrant, Stateless, and Refugee Literature and Culture; Mobility Studies, Refugee Studies, and Human Rights; Modernist and Contemporary Travel Writing; Theories of Cosmopolitanism, Globalization, and World Literature.

 

Mauro Lazarovich is a Ph.D. candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. His dissertation “Citizens of Nowhere: Stateless and Refugee Literature in Latin America” analyzes a constellation of poems, fiction, essays, and paintings created by Latin American authors and artists, such as Gabriela Mistral, João Guimarães Rosa, Pablo Neruda, Victoria Ocampo, and Lasar Segall. These figures used their works to address the situation of the refugees fleeing World War II. The project’s broader concern is understanding how literature witnesses rightlessness and imagines rights. It approaches this problem from an overlooked region (Latin America) and through a comparative and transatlantic perspective. You can watch a short video of him explaining his research here.

His other work explores the interplay between literature and displacement through cosmopolitan and multilingual constellations of texts. In 2022-2023, he held the John H. Coatsworth Latin American History Fellowship and the GSAS Merit Term-Time Fellowship. Before coming to Harvard, he received a Licenciatura in History from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and a Master’s degree in Literaturas de América Latina from Universidad de San Martín.

 

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