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Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D 2008 (Spanish & Portuguese), New York University
B.A. 1999 (International and Area Studies), University of California, Berkeley

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Research Interests:

Latin American literature and culture; film; performing and visual arts; memory studies, border-crossings and migration; translation

Selected Works:


“Presencias perseverantes: Sobre apariciones, (des)encuentros, y el acto de recordar en Malezas (2006)”. Teatro uruguayo e historia reciente. Eds. Roger Mirza and Gustavo Remedi. Montevideo: Biblioteca Nacional (forthcoming).

“Forms of Memory in Recent Fictional Narratives from Uruguay: Summoning the Dictatorship in ‘Mnemonic Interventions’” MESTER Vol.XXXVI, Special Issue: “Memory and History: Remembering, Forgetting and Forgiving” (2007).
 
Articles published in °Cien, Weekly Newspaper, Montevideo (selection): “Francesc Torres: Oscura es la Habitación Donde Dormimos en el International Center of Photography” (Oct. 2007); “Poética política: En homenaje a Grace Paley” (Nov. 2007); “Sean Scully: Literatura y pintura” (Jan. 2008).
 
Translation of select poetry, Metamorphoses 17.1, Spring 2009.
 

Editorial Position:
Managing Editor, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies


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