Education:
Ph.D., University of Minnesota - 1990 (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature and Linguistics)
M.A., University of California, Davis - 1984 (Comparative Literature)
Certificate, Mount Holyoke College - 1982 (Spanish)
B.A., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - 1981 (English Pedagogy)
Areas of Expertise:
Her research is currently focused on Latin American testimony and documentary, crossing and resort to the two different media that have been used to narrate political violence and trauma from the perspective of an I. She is particularly interested in the works produced by female documentarians who revisit their past as political activists constructing alternative archives to the official memory accounts.
Books and Publications
"Las mujeres mapuche y la defensa del territorio: Una práctica ancentral ecofeminista." Requested article for the book Cultura y Artes Escénicas. Eds. Baldomero de Maya Sánchez et. Al. Murcia, Spain: Universidad de Murcia. 2020. 95-119.
"Nación, género y etnia en Por la Patria de Diamela Eltit." Diamela Eltit. Políticas de su narrativa ficcional: Estudios desde Chile. Ed. Patricia Espinosa. Santiago: Garceta Ediciones, 2018. 35-50.
"Testimonios y memorias en Argentina y Chile: la sobreviviente frente a los derechos humanos." Donde no habite el olvido. Herencia y transmisión del testimonio: perspectivas socio jurídicas. Eds. Marzia Roti and Valentina Palieri. Italian Ministry of Culture for Education and Research (MIUR): Milan, Italy, 2017. 145-166.
(Books and Publications: Book Review) 2020
Creative Work
Documentary short, "Defying Silence: The Feminist Surge in Chile" codirected with Martha Gregory. In progress
Documentary short El arbol de la vida (la reina, la hija y las mujeres) selected at Ethnografilm Film Festival, Theater Lépic, Paris, April 16-20, 2019 2020
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Tow Faculty Travel Fellowship ($2,530), December, 2019
PSC CUNY Grant for Documentary Work, Defying Silence. The Feminist Surge in Chile" ($3,500), Spring 2020
CUNY ARTS OER Fellowships RFP, MoMA,( $500), Spring 2020
(Awards and Honors) 2020
Research Activities
Visiting Scholar at ADHUC-Centre de Recerca Teoria, Gènere, Sexualitat, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, May 13-17, 2019. 2019
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Defying Silence: The Feminist Surge in Chile" presented at the IP course Memories of Neoliberalism, Bucknell University, April 20, 2020
"Una cara del terror en Chile: Ingrid Olderock, la mujer de los perros," Congreso Internacional de Literatura y DDHH, Instituto IDEA, Universidad de Santiago, Santiago-Chile, November 14-16, 2019.
"Documentary and Feminist Activism: El árbol de la vida (la reina, la hija y las mujeres), Southern Cone Section Featured Panel Feminist Activism, LASA Boston, May 23-27, 2019.
"Alzar la voz: Testimonios de sobrevivientes de violencia politico-sexual en el Chile contemporáneo." Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Granada, Spain, March 5th, 2019.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
Professional Leadership
PSC Grant Evaluator Fall 2019
Manuscript Reviewer
Arboles y rizomas. Revista de Estudios Linguísticos y Literarios, Spring 2020-
The Coastal Review, Spring 2020-
Latin American Research Review, Fall 2019-
Hispanófila Fall 2019-
Bulletin of Spanish-Hispanic Studies, England, Fall 2019-
Clepsidra. Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios sobre Memoria, Argentina, Summer 2019-
Lectora. Revista de Dones i Textualitat, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, Spring 2019-
Kamchatka. Revista de Análisis Cultural, Departamento de Filología Española, Universitat de Valencia, Spain, Fall 2018-
(Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2020
