Podcast Interviews and Recorded Lectures
- Episode 131 — “This is the challenge that I want to tackle right now.” — The Course (podcast), video version on YouTube. A conversation on her career trajectory from Brazil to the University of Chicago and her research focus in the environmental humanities.
- Eletrochoque e hidreletricidade — Victoria Saramago — Portuguese-language talk/interview on electroshock torture and hydropower in Brazilian cultural production.
- Perspectivas atuais e internacionais dos estudos machadianos – mesa 6 – Conexões Itaú Cultural
- Pressing Matters: Victoria Saramago on the Amazon — Interview segment on the Amazon.
- ASLE Spotlight Series 4: Identity and Place — ASLE EcoCast Podcast (recorded June 11, 2021). Co-hosted by Laura Barbas-Rhoden and Gisela Heffes; Saramago appeared as a panelist alongside Scott Edward Anderson, Charles Maurice Pigott, and Lucien Darjeun Meadows.
- Fictional Environmental Podcast: Pandemonium 2021 — Audio talk/appearance, SoundCloud (January 2021).
- Victória Saramago — Conexões (2017) — Brazilian television/interview segment, 2017.
Documentary / Film Appearance
- Romance de Formação (2012, dir. Julia De Simone) — Brazilian documentary following young scholars at institutions including Harvard, Stanford, and PUC-Rio; Saramago is one of the featured subjects. Watch the teaser.
Profile / Spotlight Interviews
- Victoria Saramago — January 2022 Scholar of the Month — ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), written Q&A interview.
- Member Spotlight: Victoria Saramago — LASA (Latin American Studies Association), Amazonia Section newsletter. Q&A-style profile on her research and path into the field.
Institutional News Coverage
- UChicago Humanities Scholar Receives NEH Fellowship — Division of the Humanities (Jan 2023), on her $60,000 NEH grant for Against the Current: Electricity and Cultural Production in Brazil’s Anthropocene.
- Professor Victoria Saramago Awarded NEH Grant for the Humanities — Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures news.
- Victoria Saramago Receives $60,000 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities — CEGU (Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization) news.
- Prof. Saramago’s Book Awarded Honorable Mention — RLL news, on the Antonio Candido Book Award (LASA Brazil Section).
- Victoria Saramago Finalist for ASLE Book Award — RLL news, on Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America.
- @rll_uchicago Instagram announcement — Department recognition post.