Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies Undergraduate Advisor, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute Frans Weiser is Associate Professor, with a joint-appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. Before joining the University of Georgia, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on the intersections between North and Latin American cultural studies and historiography, Cold War Inter-American history, and adaptation studies. He has published articles in journals such as Luso-Brazilian Review, Chasqui, Adaptation, Journal of Adaptation and Film Performance, Rethinking History, Clio, Hispania, and Estudos de literatura brasileira contemporânea. His first book, False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature and the Lost Decade (1975-1992) is part The Ohio State University Press' Global Latino/a America Series. The project revises national and economic accounts of the 1980s by charting the concurrent hemispheric rise of cultural history. Examining the conflicting descriptions of the Americas afforded by Latin America's so-called "lost decade" and Francis Fukuyama’s claims regarding the end of history and the ascendancy of U.S. capitalism, the project demonstrates that on a cultural level the regions experienced a return to history that combated neoliberal agendas. Focusing on the period between the end of Pan-Americanism in the 1960s and the rise of hemispheric and border studies in the 1990s, the project resituates the prism of nationalism through which writers and journalists from Brazil, Hispanic America, and the United States have most commonly been classified. In response to questions of disciplinary exceptionalism, he proposes the Inter-American paradigm as a productive point of mediation between American and Latin American studies. He is currently finishing his second book, titled Afterlives of the Brazilian State, about the invisible, yet fundamental role that contemporary literary crime adaptations played in the evolution of cinematic violence and the creation of new transmedial markets during Brazil's retomada. He has also begun work on an Inter-American study of "new environmentalism" in Hollywood and Latin American representations of the Amazon. Research Research Interests: Hemispheric and Inter-American Studies, Latin American cultural studies, cultural history, Lusophone historical fiction, adaptation studies Selected Publications Selected Publications:
