Gabriel Weisz Carrington

Gabriel Weisz Carrington is a poet playwright theatre researcher and comparative literature researcher He collaborated with Leonora Carrington in a few creative endeavours a joint project with the Dark Book building sets for theatre cinema and assisting Leonora with a few sculptures He is the firstborn son of Leonora He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature an MA in English Literature and a BA in Dramatic Literature and Theater all from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México He completed a Doctoral Program in Representation Studies at Columbia and New York Universities Member of the National System of Researchers Professor and researcher for more than thirty years at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters Obtained the Fulbright scholarship for researchers in 2003 that same year he received the Gabino Barreda medal for his masters and doctoral studies Member of institutions such as the Association of Linguistics and Philology of Latin America the Mexican Association of Theatrical Research and the Association of Professors and Researchers of the Universidad Iberoamericana His research interests include ethnology of which he has been interested in shamanism political science poststructuralism and comparative literature