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Parhizkar
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My comparative interdisciplinary research centers twentieth- and twenty-first century hemispheric literature, art and performance. I am currently working long-term on two research projects: the first is a study of collecting, materiality, and the transfiguration of loss in the repair-seeking practices of minoritarian writers and artists from across the Americas, in pursuit of justices foreclosed by the logics of imperialism and coloniality at large. The second a literary and cultural study of the “emergence” of the U.S. Salvadoran diaspora in a relational, multi-ethnic and transnational context. These projects are intertwined with my own creative practice as a poet working across mediums, as well as my collaborative curatorial work centering Central American cultural production.
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Central American Futurities Conference
In April 2024, María Aguilar Velasquez, Eileen Michelle Galvez and I co-organized Central American Futurities at Yale University, the first international Central American studies conference to be hosted at the university and the first to be hosted in the northeastern United States. Among the goals of the conference were bridging conversations in the Central American diasporas and the isthmus; centering Black and Indigenous isthmian epistemologies and perspectives; and gather a transnational community to reframe thinking on how the region, its past, present, and future, are considered through, scholarship, arts, and activism.