Ph.D., Harvard University Juan Pablo Lupi is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Director of the Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR). He is affiliated with the Comparative Literature Program and the Latin American and Iberian Studies program. Prof. Lupi started his academic career in the sciences. He earned the Licenciatura and Master’s degrees in Physics at Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas, Venezuela), and then earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of El gesto y la razón: La teoría de los medios de Simón Rodríguez (Almenara press, 2026) and Reading Anew: José Lezama Lima’s Rhetorical Investigations (Vervuert-Iberoamericana, 2012), and co-editor of the volumes Asedios a lo increado: Nuevas aproximaciones sobre Lezama Lima (Verbum, 2015) and La futuridad del naufragio: Orígenes, estelas y derivas (Almenara, 2018). He has written various articles and book chapters on topics such as poetry and poetics, aesthetics, spectrality, media and technology, political theory, and Venezuelan history and politics. Latin American Literature; Critical Theory; Poetry and Poetics; Science; Technology and Media Studies; Venezuelan Studies Education
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