Parker Brookie

Parker Brookie's research expertise includes 20th and 21st century Brazilian and Southern Cone literature, film and media, contemporary art, and cultural history, with a focus on post-dictatorship studies, LGBTQ studies, and queer theory. More specifically, his scholarship examines the intersection of queer theories of time and cultural memory in post-dictatorship Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Currently, he has two forthcoming publications: a book chapter on the 2020 film adaptation of Pedro Lemebel's novel Tengo miedo torero in the edited volume Trans Joy in Latin America, and an article manuscript titled “Vi-curios Memory: Queer Aesthetics in the Post-dictatorship Films 108: Cuchillo de Palo (2010) by Renate Costa and Divinas Divas (2017) by Leandra Leal” forthcoming in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. His further publications on Latin American literature, contemporary art, and LGBTQ studies can be found in journals like Chasqui, Romance Notes and Asymptote. In 2023, he was a research resident in contemporary art in São Paulo, Brazil. His current research project is on the intersection between time, climate catastrophe and trans* representation in contemporary Latin American speculative fiction. 

At UMD, Dr. Brookie teaches all levels of Portuguese and courses on Brazilian and Lusophone culture where he adopts highly communicative and student-centered pedagogies. Throughout his career, he has designed dynamic courses like Brazilian Women Writers, Afrofuturism in Latin America, Introduction to Latinx Studies, Queer Latin American Literature and Culture, Latin American Cinema, and taught all levels of language and professional courses in Portuguese and Spanish. Before coming to UMD, Parker was an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Converse University, a visiting Lecturer at the Universidad de Sevilla, and a Graduate Teaching Fellow at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was a copyeditor for Romance Notes from 2020-2023.