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Education
PhD, University of Southern California
MA, Middlebury College
BA, Pomona College
About Me
Jane Kassavin is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Latin American Poetry. She was formerly a Dornsife Postdoctoral Fellow in General Education at the University of Southern California and a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellow at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Her book project, Vital Sounds: Unsettling Voice in Latin America, seeks to reconceptualize what we mean by the “voice” in modern and contemporary Latin American poetry, performance, and experimental media.
Research Interests
Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture with an emphasis on Brazil and the Southern Cone, Poetry and Poetics, Sound Studies, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Studies, Black and African Diaspora Studies, Literary Translation and Adaptation
Publications
“Concretism’s Dissonant Objects.” Comparative Literature, 77.1 (March 2025). Honorable Mention, Brazil Section Award, Latin American Studies Association (2026)
“Underwritten Voices: Resonant Spaces and Unsound Silences in Dani Zelko, Soraya Maicoño, and Daniela Catrileo.” Latin American Literary Review, 51.102 (Spring 2024).
“Fugitive Sounds: On the Politics of Listening at Argentina’s Southern Border.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 33.1 (2024). Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Article Prize (2025)