Raquel Parrine

Raquel Vieira Parrine Sant’Ana is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Bryn Mawr College. She earned her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the University of São Paulo.

Her research examines Latin American literature, visual art, and material culture from the democratic transitions of the 1980s to the present. Working at the intersection of feminism, queer theory, and critical theory, she investigates how artists and writers negotiate the enduring legacies of dictatorship, colonialism, and authoritarian neoliberalism. Her current book project, In the Fissures of Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Sexual Difference in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Art (1980–2024), develops the concept of "proto-queerness" to describe fragile, processual, and unfinished forms of sexual dissidence that emerge in contemporary Latin American cultural production. Her work pays particular attention to textile practices, visual culture, and the political imagination of gender and sexuality in Brazil, Paraguay.

Her research has appeared in the ICAA Working Papers (International Center for the Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), Revista Estudos Feministas, and Revista Criação e Crítica. She is also a literary translator and member of the Sycorax collective, contributing to Brazilian Portuguese translations of works by Silvia Federici, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, as well as English translations of contemporary Brazilian writers.

At Bryn Mawr and the Bi-Co, she teaches courses on Latin American literature, visual culture, gender and sexuality, and Spanish language and culture. These include SPAN H332B: Into the Thread: Gender and Textile Artwork in Latin America, which explores textiles as sites of feminist, Indigenous, and queer artistic practice across the region.

Recent Publications:

Leonilson’s Queer Intimacy and Politics in the Democratic Transition (1983–1993), ICAA Working Papers, 2026

Translations:

“Moema Vilela, Fotos ruins muito boas (selected poems)”, Absinthe: World Literature in Translation 30. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/absinthe.6850