Talk: Maria Gloria Robalino presents "Losing Perspective(s): Spatio-temporal Disorientation in the Colonial Andes"

Maria Gloria Robalino is an interdisciplinary scholar and architect working at the crossroads of environmental literature, indigenous studies, visual culture, and gender and sexuality studies. She received her Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University and is currently a PhD Candidate in the department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Her first book project, “Heightened Worlds: Vertiginous Imaginaries in the Pacific Ring of Fire, 1550-1670,” considers how indigenous notions of agentive space transform over the course of the long seventeenth century and provoke experiences of vertigo in colonial societies from the Andes, Mesoamerica, and Southeast Asia.

She is currently co-editing a volume of essays reframing the notion and practice of voice-over in a variety of disciplines with the documentary filmmaker Agustina Comedi. The project is part of her work as the chair of the Matters of Voice research workshop at the Stanford Humanities Center. Her research has been supported by various organizations, including the Tinker Foundation, the Swiss Secretariat of Education, and the McCoy Center for Ethics.

Cohosted by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.