Bambalinas:

A Digital Memory of Contemporary Street Theatre in Latin America.

Marcelo Carosi is Bambalinas’ principal investigator. His research focuses on cultural representations of feminine labor in literary, visual, and performing arts. His current book project, Dangerous Maids: Representation of Domestic Labor in Latin America, explores the figure of the maid as a central topic facilitated the shaping of women subjectivity. His findings challenge its prevalent association with obedience, docility, and compliance, or, more negatively, theft, prostitution, gossip, and betrayal.

While writing the third chapter of Dangerous Maids, Marcelo faced the lack of critical studies on Colombian street theater that in those years addressed domestic work as a fairly usual topic. Bambalinas came about as a way to put together an archive that would house material related to this art and become a project that was handled in parallel with the writing of his dissertation.

Marcelo earned his bachelor’s in business from Universidad Nacional de Lujan in Argentina and his master’s in Latin American literatures and cultures from New York University, where he also earned his Ph.D. in Spanish in 2019.