Ana Forcinito

Contact Me

aforcini@umn.edu
612-625-1014

Spanish and Portuguese Studies
205D Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant Street SE

Affiliations

• Spanish and Portuguese Studies
• Liberal Arts: Human Rights Program
• Liberal Arts: Moving Image Studies Graduate Minor
• Liberal Arts: Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
• Liberal Arts: Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
• Liberal Arts: The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Links

• Memory, Trauma and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Arts and Sciences

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Latin American Literature and Culture, University of Pittsburgh, 1999.

Specialties

• 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, with focus on the Southern Cone
• Interdisciplinary approaches to testimonial narratives, memory and trauma studies
• 19th century literature with emphasis on the Southern Cone
• Feminist theory and gender studies
• Visual and Sound Studies
• Latin American and Latinx feminist theory about gender violence
• Literary and audio-visual practices anchored in the promotion of human rights, the reconstruction of memory in post-authoritarian regimes, and the eradication of gender violence

Courses Taught

• Film Studies in Spanish: Introduction to Latin American Cinema
• Film Studies in Spanish: Feminist Theory and Film in Latin America
• Film Studies in Spanish: Representations of Heath, Illness and Trauma
• Film Studies in Spanish: Cinema, Visions, Sound and Memory
• Issues in Hispanic Cultures: Memory, Human Rights and Cultural Practices in the Southern Cone
• Issues in Hispanic Cultures: Women, Human Rights, and Cultural Practices In Latin America
• Nineteenth Century Latin America: Enlightened Thought, Nation Building, Literacy, Cultural Discourse
• Gender, Writing and Cultural Identities in Spanish American Literature
• Debates culturales en torno a la memoria, el testimonio y los derechos humanos
• Modern Latin America
• Human Rights in the Americas
• Reframing Mass Atrocities

Publications

• BOOKS
• Intermittences: Memory, Justice and the Poetics of the Visible. Forcinito, Ana, University of Pittsburgh Press, Author, 2018. Link
• Oyeme con los ojos: cine, mujeres, visiones y voces,. Forcinito, Ana, Casa de las Americas, Author, 2018. Download
• Los umbrales del testimonio: Entre las narraciones de sobrevivientes y las señas de la posdictadura. Forcinito, Ana, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Author, 2012. Download
• Memorias y nomadí­as: géneros y cuerpos en los márgenes del posfeminismo. Forcinito, Ana, Cuarto Propio, Author, 2004. Download
• EDITED and CO_EDITED BOOKS AND VOLUMES
• Poner el cuerpo: rescatar y visibilizar las marcas sexuales y de género de los archivos dictatoriales. Forcinito, Ana, Bernardita Llanos and Ksenija Bilbija, Chile, Editorial Cuarto Propio, Co-Editor, 2017. Link
• The Layers of Memory and the Discourse of Human Rights: Artistic and Testimonial Practices in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Forcinito, Ana, Hispanic Issues on Line 14, Editor, 2014. Link
• Human Rights and Latin American and Iberian Cultures. . Forcinito, Ana, With Raul Marrero Fente and Kelly McDonough., Co-Editor, Fall 2009. Link
• Human Rights and Latin American Cultural Studies. Forcinito, Ana, Fernando Ordonez, Co-Editor, Summer 2009. Link
• SELECTED ARTICLES
• "Testimonio y vulnerabilidad: hacia la construccion de saberes feministas". Practicas de oficio 21, 2018. Download
• “Visibilidad variable: intermitencias y violencia de genero”. Donde no habite el olvido. Herencia y transmisión del testimonio, perspectivas socio-juridicas. Eds. Marzia Rosti y Valentina Paleari. Universita degli Studi di Milano, 2018.
• "Il ritorno e lo sguardo. Testimonianze nell'Uruguay del postdittatura". La letteratura di testimonianza in America latina Eds. Emilia Perassi and Laura Scarabelli, Milan: Mimesis, 2017. 217-237.
• “Las nuevas Laurencias y la violencia de género”. Revolución y cultura 1. La Havana, Cuba, February 2016. 14-21. Download
• “Testimonio: The Witness, the Truth and the Inaudible. ” Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thourght. Ed. Yolanda Martinez San Miguel, Ben Sifuentes Jauregui and Marisa Belausteguigoitia. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 239-251.
• “Los cristales de la memoria: voces y miradas frente a la historia argentina”Revista Iberoamericana 251 (2015): 409-33. Download
• “La voz visible: un acercamiento al testimonio de ex presos políticos en Uruguay.”Avatares del testimonio en América Latina. Kamchatka 6, 2015. Download
• “Afterword: Reframing Amazonian Images: Poetics, Visions, and Sounds.”Amazonian Literatures. Ed. Lesley Wylie. Hispanic Issues On Line 16 (Fall 2014): 164–75.
• “Fugas y resistencias heroicas: Entre la atrocidad y el encuadre de la trata de mujeres y niñas en Argentina.”Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 17 2014. Download
• “Oyeme con los ojos: miradas y voces en el cine de María Luisa Bemberg”.Tránsitos de la mirada: Mujeres que hacen cine. Eds.Agustina Pérez Rial y Paulina Bettendorff. Buenos Aires, Libraria 2014. 41-68.
• “Las batallas de la memoria: violencia sexual y derechos humanos en Argentina”Letras femeninas 39.2 (2013.): 93-112
• “Lo invisible y lo invivible: El Nuevo Cine Argentino de mujeres y sus huellas acústicas.”Chasqui 42.2 (2013): 37-57. Download
• “Cautiverios sospechosos en las puertas de la conquista del desierto: Lucía Miranda de Rosa Guerra.”Critica Hispanica 33 (2011):37-63.
• “Desintegración y resistencia: corporalidad, género y escritura en Diamela Eltit”. Revista Anclajes. (December 2010): 91-107. Download
• “Memories and Kaleidoscopes in the Argentine Post-dictatorship: Survivors, Witnesses, Past and Present”. Post Authoritarian Culture: Spain and Latin America’s Southern Cone.Hispanic Issues. Ed. Luis Martín Estudillo y Alberto Ampuero, Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.
• "Mirada cinematográfica y género sexual: mí­mica, erotismo y ambigíüedad en Lucrecia Martel": Forcinito, Ana, Chasqui , 35.2 109-30, 2006. Download
• “Narración, testimonio y memorias sobrevivientes: hacia la posmemoria en la dictadura uruguaya.” Letras Femeninas 32.2 (2006): 197-218 Download
• “Voz, escritura e imagen: arte y testimonio en El infarto del alma.” Hispanófila 148 (Setiembre 2006): 59-71. Download

Awards

• Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop Award, University of Minnesota, 2018 - 2020
• Institute of Advanced Study Research Collaborative, University of Minnesota, 2018 - 2019
• Casa de las Américas Award for the book Óyeme con los ojos, 2018
• Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2013-2016 - 2016-2019
• Institute of Advanced Study Research Collaborative, University of Minnesota, 2013 - 2014
• Grant in Aid, University of Minnesota , 2011
• McKnight Summer Fellowship, University of Minnesota , 2007
• American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant,, 2006
• Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias (CRIM), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2006
• Junior Faculty Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research, Trinity University, 2003
• Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios (CEIL), Universidad de la República, Uruguay., 2001
• Annual Award of the Argentine Academy of Literature (Academia Argentina de Letras), 1992