Ana Forcinito Bio

Ana Forcinito is Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and the holder of the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. She has published Memorias y nomadías: géneros y cuerpos en los márgenes del posfeminismo (2004), and Los umbrales del testimonio: entre las narraciones de los sobrevivientes y las marcas de la posdictadura (2012). She has also co- edited  two volumes:  Human Rights and in Latin American and Iberian Cultures (with Fernando Ordoñez,  2009) and Human Rights and Latin American Cultural Studies (with Raúl Marrero Fente and Kelly McDonough 2009). She is the editor of the forthcoming volume The Layers of Memory and the Discourse of Human Rights: Artistic and Testimonial Practices in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula (HIOL, 2013).