Ana Amado Bio

Ana Amado has a PhD in Literature and a B.A. in Political Science.  She is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, and she has also acted as a Visiting Professor at Duke University and Princeton University, the University of Arts and Political Science in Santiago and at the National Autonomous University of México.  For the past two decades, she has directed an interdisciplinary Investigative team, which studies images, violence and memory at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Gender Studies within the Department of Philosophy and Literature.  She was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship in 2010-2011 to investigate the topic of “Political Insurgency and Popular Imagery in Argentine Photography: From the Collective Scene of the 1970’s to the Post-Crisis Depiction of the Victims.”  Some of her published books include: La imagen justa. Cine argentino y política 1980-2007, (2009); her co-authored book, Lazos de Familia. Herencias, cuerpos, ficciones (2004); Espacio para la igualdad. El ABC de un periodismo no sexista (1996).  Her texts about film, politics and memory appear in numerous national and international publications.  Some of her recent articles include: “Rituales angélicos. Pueblo, infancia y duelo en Leonardo Favio”, in Mariano Mestman and Mirta Verala, orgs, Masas, pueblo, multitud en cine y televisión (Buenos Aires: Eudeba 2013); “Images from the South of the New World. Contemporary Documentary in Argentina and Brazil”, in collaboration with Dora Mourau, USP, in Brain Winston (ed), The Documentary Film Book (London: British Film Institute/Palgrave-MacMillen, 2013); “Imágenes de cultura y de barbarie”, the prologue to the book Formas de la memoria. Notas sobre el documental argentino reciente coordinated by Gabriel D’lorio and Laura Gallazi (Buenos Aires: Ed IUNA audiovisuales, 2013); “Actores secundarios. Representaciones y auto representaciones de la pobreza” in the book Corporalidades coordinated by Maya Aguiluz Ibargüen and P. Briones (México DF: Universidad Nacional Autónoma of México/Center of Interdisciplinary Investigations in the Sciences and Humanities, Iberoamerican University, 2012).  She can currently be found working on a CD-Rom and art installation entitled, “Entre generaciones. Poéticas de la transmissión”, which she is producing and creating in conjunction with the organization of DDHH Memoria Abierta and Ubacyt. She is a member of the Directive Committee of Mora, an institutional publication of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Gender Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. In addition, she is a member of the Directive Committee of Pensamiento de los confines, Diótima/UBA/FCE.  She is the lead editor of the collection “A oscuras/ Colihue Imagen”, in Editorial Colihue, Buenos Aires, since 2008 until the present.  She has allows also edited Género y Cultura, the collection by Editorial Paidós (Buenos Aires, Barcelona, México), from 1997-2004 (13 published volumes).