Johann Kirchenbauer

PhD Student
j.kirchenbauer@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Modern and Contemporary Hispanic Literatures and Cultures

Areas of Interest

  • Venezuela and its Diasporas;
  • Testimonio; Orality;
  • Trauma Theory;
  • Community Building and Diaspora Studies

Biography

Born in Caracas and raised in various parts of Venezuela, Johann and his family moved to Canada when he was eleven. His focus on the Venezuelan diaspora comes from both a personal connection and an academic curiosity that was born during the latter part of his B.A. Honours degree. He has received multiple awards to support his research and academic analysis of the cultural productions of Venezuelan diasporas, mentioned below. In addition, his creative exploration of the same research topic can be appreciated in the award-nominated radio documentary Venezuelan Diaspora Experiences Abroad (CJSR 2019).
•    E. F. Burton and F. W. Burton Graduate Scholarship (University of Toronto – 2023).
•    SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award (The University of British Columbia – 2020).
•    British Columbia Graduate Scholarship (The University of British Columbia – 2020).
•    EJH Greene Memorial Scholarship (University of Alberta – 2018, 2019).

Education

MA, The University of British Columbia
BA Honours, University of Alberta

Presentations

"Independence & Literature: Andrés Bello's translations in the literary polysystem", ArtsCon, Edmonton, Canada, 2019.
"Independentist Nationalist Rhetoric: Translation during the early 19th Century in Venezuela and Chile", FURCA, Edmonton, Canada, 2020.
"Actos perversos: Género, performatividad y perversiones en Luna Caliente (1983) de Mempo Giardinelli", FHIS Graduate Student Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, 2021.
"How is life going to be better? The denouncing of an idealized old Venezuela in La Vida Bohème’s “La Vida Mejor”" LASA. Bogotá, June 2024 (Accepted)

Cohort

  • 2023-2024