 | Violence in Argentine Literature and Film (1989-2005) Rocha Carolina : Carolina Rocha is Assistant Professor in Spanish at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas and specializes in contemporary Southern Cone literature and film. She is co-editor (with Hugo Hortiguera) of Argentinean Cultural Production during the Neoliberal Years. Her articles on Argentine film have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Ciberletras, and Bulletin of Spanish Studies. In the summer of 2007, she took part in a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar in Argentina. She is currently working on a manuscript that explores representations of masculinity in contemporary Argentine cinema.Montes Garcés Elizabeth : Elizabeth Montes Garcés is an Associate Professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary. She is the author of El cuestionamiento de los mecanismos de representación en la novelística de Fanny Buitrago (1997) and of numerous articles published in prestigious journals such as Texto crítico, Letras Femeninas, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Anuario de Letras, and Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. She is editor of Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures (University of Calgary Press). She is currently at work on a book on the relationship between body and text in the works of four Latin American female writers: Ana María Shua, Diamela Eltit, Carmen Boullosa, and Laura Restrepo. |
