About the Lab
The Experimental Humanities Lab is a hub for critics, theorists, and practitioners in the arts and humanities who seek to take intellectual and creative risks and move beyond disciplinary boundaries and genres. Bringing together scholars whose research focuses upon experimental arts (literature, music, performance, film, and dance), as well as those who want to experiment with their own writing or creative practices, the Lab facilitates imaginative, indisciplined work.
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Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, where she is Director of the USC Dornsife Experimental Humanities Lab and Acting Director of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities. She is the author of three books—Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading (Fordham UP, 2020), Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (Northwestern UP, 2014), and The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Duke UP, 2008)—and is completing a fourth book on experimental transmedial aesthetics. Graff Zivin is the founder of the international “Women in Theory” collective, serves on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association, and oversees the digitization of the entire work of experimental filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch (a collaboration between the USC Dornsife Experimental Humanities Lab, USC Digital Library, and the Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch)
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