Mariano López Seoane is currently the director of the Master’s Program on Gender and Sexuality at UNTREF in Argentina, where he has been teaching since 2013. He also teaches Latin American literature, cultural studies and queer studies at NYU Buenos Aires. After completing a BA in History at the University of Buenos Aires, Mariano moved to NYC to study at NYU, where he earned a Master’s Degree in Latin American Studies from CLACS and a PhD in Latin American Literature from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He has written mostly on contemporary Latin American literature and arts, with particular interest in the cultures of sexual and gender dissidents in the Americas, Latin American instances of queer studies and queer activism, and figurations of drug culture and drug related violence in Latin American narrative, film and visual arts.

Mariano López Seoane
Visiting Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
Education
B.A. History, University of Buenos Aires, 2002.
M.A. Latin American Studies, CLACS, New York University, 2005
Ph.D. Latin American Literature, Spanish and Portuguese, NYU, 2010
Areas of Research/Interest
Gender and Sexuality - Queer Theory - Queer and Feminist activism in the Americas - Contemporary Latin American Art and Literature - Drugs and Drug Culture in the Americas - Visual Culture - Theater
Awards
- 2015-2018 Marie Curie RISE Excellent Science "Cultural Narratives of Crisis and Renewal" project funder by the European Commission
- 2011-2013 Post-Doctoral Grant at CONICET (Argentina)
- 2009 DAAD Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates. Iberoamerikanisches Institut. Berlin
Publications
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“Ataques de risa. El humor como estrategia queer”Compas d'amalgama. 1 (Spring 2020).
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“Darle forma al éxtasis. Poesía, arte y protocolos de contención”El jardín de los poetas. Revista de teoría y crítica de poesía. 9 (2019).
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"Camp Fires: The Body as Queer Stage"Terremoto. (October 2019)
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Los mil pequeños sexos. Intervenciones críticas sobre políticas de género y sexualidadesBuenos Aires: EDUNTREF, 2019.
Conference Presentations
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Evil in the AmericasBuenos Aires, November 2019; Latin American Scholars Conference. UNTREF
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Aesthetic Interventions and Sexual Dissidence: An Account from The SouthBarcelona, May 2019; Department of Art History. University of Barcelona
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World Making Programs: Traces of Utopia in Helio Oiticica and Nestor PerlongherNew York, November 2018; Regimenes de alteración: literatura, droga y gobierno de vida. King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. NYU
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How to Survive Neoliberalism: Micropolitical Strategies of Argentine Art in the 80s and 90sAmsterdam, December 2016; Research Centre in Arts in Society. University of Groningen.