Jane Kassavin

Jane Kassavin is a Dornsife Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures. Her current book project, Vital Sounds: Unsettling Voice in Latin America, focuses on notions and performances of disruptive voice in modern and contemporary Latin American poetry and experimental media. Her work reads poetic forms of sonic refusal and disruption —such as the silence, the whisper, and the shout— in order to study how they contest established forms of sensibility and discursivity in order to formulate unexpected modes of community, being, and expression amid political and ecological crises. Her scholarly writing and translations have been published in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Latin American Literary Review, Comparative Literature, and Absinthe: World Literature in Translation. She was a also a former Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Fellow at the University of São Paulo and the State University of Campinas. At USC, she teaches classes on Latin American poetry in translation.

• MA Spanish, Middlebury College, 8/2016
• BA Pomona College, 5/2012