Position Title
Professor
- Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies
Ph.D., Princeton University
RESEARCH INTEREST(S)
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Contemporary Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies
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Literature, Culture, and Politics of the Southern Cone
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Chile, Argentina, Peru
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Revolutions, Dictatorships, Transitions to Democracy
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Memory Studies
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Trauma, Violence
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Human Rights
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Film Studies, particularly Documentary Film
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CURRENT PROJECTS
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A monographic study that seeks to understand memory configurations of children of perpetrators of and collaborators with political violence in Chile, Argentina, and Peru (in progress).
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How the Military Remembers: Countermemories of the Cold War in Latin America. Co-edited with Cynthia E. Milton (in progress).
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Los futuros de la memoria: hacia una redefinición de los derechos y los usos del pasado en las democracias latinoamericanas. Co-edited with Fernando A. Blanco (under contract with University of North Carolina Press/ A Contracorriente, in progress).
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Translation and edition of José Carlos Agüero’s Los rendidos. Co-edited with Charles F. Walker (in progress).