Dianna C. Niebylski, Ph.D.
Professor, Latin American Literatures and Cultural Studies
Hispanic and Italian Studies
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About
Prof. Niebylski’s research focuses on sound studies in contemporary literature and film, humor and irony in the context of gender studies, and the representation of poverty in Latin American fiction. She serves on the editorial board of the Foro Hispánico, a peer-reviewed book series devoted to the study of Spanish and Hispanic-American cultures. She also serves on the editorial board on several literary journals, including Romance Notes and The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. From 2014-2019 she was editor-in-chief of the Revista de Género y sexualidades (previously Letras femeninas), and was this journal’s Book Review Editor from 2009-2012. She has been invited to share her work on sound and on humor and gender nationally and internationally. As her Ph.D. is in comparative literary studies, she teaches comparative literature courses for the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics and directs dissertations on transAmerican as well as transatlantic topics.
Professor Niebylski has certificates on Business, Medical and Legal Translation and offers undergraduate classes on translation at UIC.
Professor Niebylski earned the prestigious university-wide Graduate Mentoring Award in 2017 and has received multiple LAS Dean’s Faculty Awards. She is the author of Humoring Resistance: Laughter, Bodies and Excess in Latin American Women Authors and The Poem on the Edge of the Word: The Limits of Language and the Uses of Silence in the Poetry of Mallarmé, Rilke and Vallejo. She edited the volumes Sergio Chejfec: Trayectorias de una escritura. Ensayos críticos and Maldito amor y otros cuentos. Edición crítica. She co-edited Latin American Icons: Fame across Cultures and, most recently, Pobreza y precariedad en el imaginario latinoamericano del siglo XXI (co-edited with former UIC Ph.D. Stephen Buttes) and the articles listed below. Recent articles include:
Selected Publications
“Sounding Class, Race and Gender in The Swamp. ReFocus: The Films of Lucrecia Martel. Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha, Julia Kratje and Paul R. Merchant, eds. 2022: 27-46.
“Ironía y violencia en Mano de obra y Fuerzas especiales de Diamela Eltit.” Ironía y violencia en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea. Ed. Brigitte Adriaensen and Carlos van Tongeren. Serie Nueva Amércia. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2018: 59-94.
“Narraciones y visualizaciones de la pobreza en la literatura y el cine latinoamericano del siglo XXI.” Pobreza y precariedad en el imaginario latinoamericano del siglo XXI. Ed. Stephen Buttes & Dianna Niebylski. Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2017: 7-38.
“Gramáticas capitalistas, retóricas solidarias y la prensa obrera chilena en en Mano de obra de Diamela Eltit.” Pobreza y precariedad en el imaginario latinoamericano del siglo XXI. Ed. Stephen Buttes & Dianna Niebylski. Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2017: 409-450.
“Forbidding Laughter.” Gender: Laughter. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender. Ed. Bettina Paupenberg. Gale/Macmillan, (Jan) 2017: 3-18.
“En Estado de violencia: cuerpos desechables, violencia sistémica en Impuesto a la carne y Fuerzas especiales de Diamela Eltit.” In Senderos de violencia. Latinoamérica y su literatura armada. Ed. Oswaldo Estrada. Valencia: Albatros, 2016: 269-288
“Los gauchos de verdad no leen a Borges: masculinidades antinómicas y economía política en “El gaucho insufrible”. Bolaño en sus cuentos. T. Basile, P. Aguilar, eds. Leiden: Almenara Press, 2015: 159-21.]
Professional Leadership
Department Head, Department of Spanish, French and Italian. University of Illinois Chicago, 2005-2008
Interim Director, Latin American Studies Program, University of Kentucky, 2003-2004.
Notable Honors
Summer 2017, Dean's Faculty Award, UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
2016-2017, Graduate Mentoring Award, UIC Graduate College
Summer 2006, Dean's Faculty Award, UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Licensures and Certifications
Certificate of Completion. World Literature Institute. Harvard University (2014).
Certificate of Accomplishment. The Art of Medical Translation. Issued by Cross Cultural Communications System. (June 2022)
Certificate of Completion. Online Legal Translation. University of Arizona National Center for Interpretation (August 2022)
Certificate of Completion. Online Business Translation. University of Arizona National Center for Interpretation (December 2022)