Short Bio
Jasmin Wrobel is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from Freie Universität Berlin and was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manchester from 2022-2023. At present, she is working on a monograph with the title Resisting Lines: Anti-Patriarchal Agencies in Latin American Comics. Jasmin’s research interests include feminist and anti-colonial comic art, Black resistance, (neo-)baroque literature, literary mediations of memory discourses, and concrete and experimental poetry. Her BRICC research will build upon her PhD project, which focused on the work of Brazilian concrete poet Haroldo de Campos.
Project for the Network
Detours to Paradiso: Mapping Haroldo de Campos’s Italy
The objective of Jasmin’s project is to examine the reception of the Brazilian concrete poet, translator, and theorist Haroldo de Campos in Italy. This examination will be conducted in three interrelated steps. The first step will involve tracing de Campos’ itineraries, both actual and literary/translational. The second step will entail identifying significant encounters and dialogues with Italian poets and intellectuals. The third step will be to discuss the resulting formal-aesthetic and conceptual ideas that characterize de Campos’ multifaceted work. Special consideration will be given to the hitherto under-discussed correspondence between Haroldo de Campos and Umberto Eco, as well as to his ambiguous relationship with the American poet Ezra Pound, with whom he met in Rapallo in 1959. This pivotal point in his life and work will be discussed in detail.