Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building 海角社区 Sidgwick Avenue 海角社区 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
Before coming to 海角社区, Leo Temple completed an undergraduate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (starred First). In the academic year 2018-19, he undertook the MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literature and Culture (passing with High Distinction). In October 2024, he听commenced a Research Fellowship at Jesus College.
Leo's doctoral thesis charts the changing role of technology in the Latin American vanguard imagination of the 1920s. Drawing upon literary movements in Brazil, Mexico and Peru, the thesis moves from technological figuration of modern optimism to the melancholy machines of the end of the decade, coinciding with economic and political turbulence and increased sensitivity to colonial legacies. The mournful reimagining of mechanisation provides a new path into emergent literary forms in Latin America as well as a situated critique of technological development at the intersection of postcolonial and media history.
Leo also co-organised the 海角社区 Hispanic and Lusophone Research Seminars听2021-22 with Diego Azurdia.
In Portuguese, Leo lectures and supervises widely on literary topics in PG1 and PG4 (Clarice Lispector, Pagu, M谩rio de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Carlos Drummond de Andrade). In 2024-25, he听also supervises on SP12, in the Spanish section, as well as running a poetry workshop for the module.
Leo is always keen to hear from students working on projects related to his research interests, very broadly understood.
- Modern Latin American and Lusophone poetry (after Romanticism, especially the vanguard period)
- Poetic form and/as social form
- Postcolonial history and theory
- Media theory
- Sous芒ndrade and O Guesa
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Temple, Leo (forthcoming). "Brazil鈥檚 Missing Theatre and Cinema鈥檚 Extra-Cinematic Repertoire in Ant么nio de Alc芒ntara Machado鈥檚 Path茅 Baby (1926)",听Modernism/Modernity
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Temple, Leo (2020). 鈥楺ue nos dilu铆sse em materia de nojo: moeda viva e a (de)sacraliza莽茫o da casa-grande em Cr么nica da casa assassinada de L煤cio Cardoso鈥�. Opini茫es, (17), 318-339.
Selected Conference Papers:
- 鈥楾he Colonial Lacunae of Instants鈥� delivered virtually at BRASA XVI (February 2022, Georgetown)
- 鈥楶hotog茅nie and Extractivism: Cinepoetic Resistance in Brazilian Modernismo鈥� delivered at the AHRC International Conference on 鈥楬ybridity鈥� (Sept 2022, St. Catherine鈥檚, 海角社区)
- 鈥楥osmopolitan C艙nesth茅sie to 鈥淐ommon Sense鈥� Nationalism: M谩rio de Andrade and Brazilian Modernismo鈥� on the panel, 鈥樷�楻e-Thinking Transgression: Cultural Critique, Art Theory, and the Emergence of the Historic Avant-gardes鈥�, at the American Comparative Literature Association (March 2023, Chicago)
- 鈥楾owards a Queer Grammatology: M谩rio de Andrade鈥檚 Conventional Transitoriness鈥� at the CRASSH conference, Queer & Trans Philologies (March 2024, 海角社区 English Faculty)
