Dr Rodolfo Piskorski
BA, MA (Santa Catarina), PhD (Cardiff) and AFHEA
University Teacher in Portuguese
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I am a University Teacher in Portuguese in the School of Modern Languages and I hold a PhD in Critical and Cultural Theory from Cardiff University.
I have researched and published on the interfaces between animality and textuality in Literary Studies, Philosophy, and Popular Culture.
For my PhD, I coined the term zoogrammatology to frame the thinking of "the animal question" via the early work of Jacques Derrida.
I have been teaching languages (English, Polish, and Portuguese) since 2008. I am a Welsh learner.
I maintain the website Animal Words, where I share my animal-themed research with the wider public.
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I did a degree in English Language and Literature at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil), during which I started to teach English professionally.
I have a master's degree in Literary Theory from the same university.
I moved to the UK and did my PhD in Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.
Cyhoeddiadau
2020
- Piskorski, R. 2020. Derrida and textual animality: for a zoogrammatology of literature. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-030-51732-8)
2019
- Piskorski, R. 2019. Four-footed weakness: childhood and neoteny in Oedipus Rex. Oxford Literary Review 41(2), pp. 258-273. (10.3366/olr.2019.0282)
- Piskorski, R. 2019. ‘Deeper within darkness’: animal reality, poetic representation, and the nested form of Ted Hughes’s ‘The Thought-Fox’. Presented at: Beastly Modernisms 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, 11-13 September 2019.
2018
- Piskorski, R. 2018. The light that therefore I give (to): paleonymy and animal supplementarity in Clarice Lispector’s The Apple in the Dark. In: Driscoll, K. and Hoffmann, E. eds. What Is Zoopoetics? Texts, Bodies, Entanglement. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 103-128., (10.1007/978-3-319-64416-5_7)
2017
- Piskorski, R. 2017. Becoming-animal and the two meanings of animality: a Derridean reading of Black Swan. In: Bezan, S. and Tink, J. eds. Seeing Animals After Derrida. Lexington Books, pp. 205-226.
- Da Silva, J. R. 2017. Of Zoogrammatology:A Derridean theory of textual animality. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
- Piskorski, R. 2017. The mirror in the I: neoteny, the subject of the signifier, and zoopoetics. Presented at: American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2017, Utrecht, Netherlands, 6-9 July 2017.
- Piskorski, R. 2017. The necessity of paleonymy: tracing/tracking the animal in zoogrammatology. Presented at: Oxford Literary Review 1967 + 50: The Age of Grammatology Symposium, Brighton, England, 23 June 2017.
2016
- Piskorski, R. 2016. Arche-animality in totem and taboo: paleonymy and the animal before the body. Presented at: Derrida Today, London, UK, 8-11 June 2016.
- Piskorski, R. 2016. Queer accountability: predatory sexuality and incalculable ethics in Torchwood - Children of Earth. Presented at: Fantasies of Contemporary Culture, Cardiff, 23 May 2016.
- Piskorski, R. 2016. Of zoogrammatology: arche-writing and the paleonymy of animality. Presented at: Literature's Animals, Bristol, 18 May 2016.
2015
- Piskorski, R. 2015. Of zoogrammatology as a positive literary theory. Journal of Literary Theory 9(2), pp. 230-249. (10.1515/jlt-2015-0012)
- Piskorski, R. 2015. Animal as text, text as animal: on the matter of textuality. In: Spannring, R. et al. eds. Tiere Texte Transformationen: Kritische Perspektiven der Human-Animal Studies. Transcript, pp. 245-262.
- Piskorski, R. 2015. Macaqueando Suplementos: Divinanimalidade Gramatológica em A Maçã no Escuro, de Clarice Lispector. In: Braga, E., Libanori, E. and Diogo, R. eds. Representação animal: perspectivas literárias de análise. Oficina da Leitura, pp. 15-35.
- Piskorski, R. 2015. Of zoogrammatology as a positive literary theory. Presented at: American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, 26-29 March 2015.
- Piskorski, R. 2015. Heidegger's lizard, or the "as-such" of the sun. Presented at: Cold Blood(ed): Enquiries into the Oddly Unloved, Cardiff, UK, 9-10 October 2015.
2014
- Da Silva, R. P. 2014. Performing (and becoming) the animal from the 19th to the 21st Century. Presented at: Humanity and Animality in 20th and 21st Century Culture: Narratives, Theories, Histories., London, 15-16 September 2014.
- Da Silva, R. P. 2014. The totem of Oedipus, the taboo of incest, and the writing of the animal. Presented at: Reading Animals: An International English Studies Conference, Sheffield, 17-20 July 2014.
- Da Silva, R. P. 2014. Language, literature, and species difference. Presented at: Voice of Humanities 2014, Cardiff, 20 March 2014.
2013
- Piskorski, R. 2013. Círculos viciosos: intersecções de gênero e espécie em A Fonte da Vida, de Darren Aronofsky. Revista Estudos Feministas 21, pp. 1059-1080.
- Piskorski, R. 2013. Vicious circles: intersections of gender and species in Darren Aronofsky’s "The Fountain". Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies 5(1), pp. 80-103., article number: 4.
2012
- Piskorski, R. 2012. Becoming-animal in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, or how to queer Lacanian sexuality via Derridean politics of reading. Presented at: Queering Paradigms 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 25-28 July 2012.
- Piskorski, R. 2012. CIFERAE: A bestiary in five fingers, by Tom Tyler [Book Review]. Journal for Critical Animal Studies 10(4), pp. 169-178.
- Piskorski, R. 2012. A Voz do Poema: a phoné e a poiesis no canto sem palavras. DAPesquisa 9, pp. 297-307.
- Piskorski, R. 2012. For a zoogrammatology of language. Presented at: Minding Animals Conference: Building Bridges between Science, the Humanities and Ethics, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 3-6 July 2012.
2011
- Piskorski, R. 2011. O animal simbólico: acerca da problemática da animalidade na literatura e na filosofia. Presented at: Simpósio Internacional Linguagens e Culturas, Florianópolis, Brazil, 4-7 October 2011.
- Piskorski, R. 2011. Notas sobre uma zoogramatologia do texto literário. Presented at: Colóquio Internacional Animais, Animalidade e os Limites do Humano, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 4-6 May 2011.
- Piskorski, R. 2011. Notas sobre uma Zoogramatologia do Texto Literário. Em Tese 17(3), pp. 60-81.
- Piskorski, R. 2011. O significante fálico em "A Maçã no Escuro". Presented at: Semana Clarice, Florianópolis, Brazil, 18-21 April 2011.
- Rodolfo, R. 2011. Para uma Zoogramatologia Literária em A Maçã no Escuro, de Clarice Lispector. Presented at: I Seminário dos Alunos da Pós-Graduação em Literatura da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, 16-18 August 2011.
- Da Silva, R. P. 2011. Da zoogramatologia: a literatura como escrita totêmica. Presented at: V Semana de Letras da UFSC, Florianópolis, Brazil, 24-27 May 2011.
2010
- Piskorski, R. 2010. A Produção do Humanismo da Alta Idade Moderna em 'A Tempestade' de Shakespeare. Anuário de Literatura 15(2), pp. 165-174. (10.5007/2175-7917.2010v15n2p164)
- Da Silva, R. P. 2010. Crítica da 'deficiência' e do pós-'humano': tensões teóricas. Presented at: Fazendo Gênero 9, Florianópolis, Brazil, 23-26 August 2010.
Addysgu
Before moving to the UK to pursue my doctoral studies, I taught English as a foreign language and I volunteered as a Polish tutor in Brazil.
In the UK, I taught the following Year 1 seminars as a Postgraduate Tutor at Cardiff University's English Literature programme:
- Introduction to Poetry and the Novel
- Reading and Identity
- Texts in Time: 1500-1800
- Literature, Culture, Place
- English in Theory and Practice
- Drama: Stage and Page
- Transforming Visions
- Critical Reading and Critical Writing
- Drama: Stage and Page
I also have experience teaching English for Academic Purposes to international students at UK universities.
I teach Portuguese language undergraduate modules at the School of Modern Languages.