My current research projects include:
+ a book-length project: Mapping Disappearance: Representing the Absent in Modern Argentine Fiction
+ a book-length project: What Remains: Tracing the Spatial Memory of the Argentine Dirty War
+ edited volume: The Cartographical Necessity of Exile
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The following is a list of research initiatives with which I am or have been affiliated:
The Harvard College Human Rights Advocates :: Am currently faculty advisor.
The Translation Studies Research Focus Group :: Established by Suzanne Jill Levine under the auspices of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center in 2003 in order to bring together scholars from across the disciplines working in translation studies on the UCSB campus. The group hosts an annual conference which features invited academics, translators and artists from around the nation. It also houses and publishes the journal Translation: A Translation Studies Journal. I have worked as a graduate student researcher for the group, organized the inaugural conference and designed its website, served as co-editor of the first volume of Translation and currently sit on the journal’s advisory board.
Torture and the Future Research Focus Group :: Convened in 2007 by Elisabeth Weber and Lisa Hajjar with support from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center in order to continue the UCSB campus-wide forum on torture that began with the initiative Critical Issues in America: Torture and the Future, Perspectives from the Humanities (January-June 2007). Graduate student member. Co-moderated campus discussion for students, ”Speak Out on Torture” in May 2007.
Consortium for Literature, Theory & Culture :: Established in 2001 in order to foster scholarly collaboration between graduate students and faculty working in the humanities on the UCSB campus. Served on organizing committees for the Consortium’s inaugural graduate student conference, “Mind and Body” in November 2002 and for the sixth annual graduate student conference, “Epistemologies of Torture: Limits, Bodies, Black Sites” in April 2007.
American Cultures and Global Contexts :: Situated in the English Department at UCSB, the ACGC provides a center and a forum to bring together faculty and students working in American studies from around the campus. Graduate student member. Led screening of “The Life of David Gale” and discussion on cinematic representations of the death penalty in June 2007.
