Ana Forcinito
9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Ana Forcinito received her BA from the University of Buenos Aires (Facultad de Filosofia y Letras) and her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. She specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American literature and cultural studies. Her research focuses on a wide range of topics in film studies, literature, cultural theory, testimonio, and Latin American and Latinx feminist theory, and it can be described through these three interconnected areas:
1) Interdisciplinary approaches to Latin American testimonio, as well as to literary and documentary audiovisual practices grounded in the promotion of human rights, transitional justice, and the construction of memory in post-authoritarian regimes. More recently, her work also examines the connections between testimonial narratives in literature and film and fields such as the health humanities, narrative medicine, and econarratives;
2) gender studies and Latin American and Latinx feminist theory and artistic practices, as well as the intersections of posthuman feminist and decolonial perspectives in/from/about the Global South, as expressed in literature and documentary film. She is currently working on a book-length project that examines Latin American and Latinx literary and audiovisual expressions that engage matter, body–land relations, and technology in dialogue with critical posthumanities.
3) film studies in Latin America, with an emphasis on Argentine women filmmakers and a focus on sound aesthetics—particularly the voice—and the ways it challenges conventional modes of cinematic narration and spectatorship. Her most recent research extends these concerns to the study of Latin American short films, focusing on experimental and animated productions that engage with artificial intelligence and robotics.
She teaches a wide range of courses on 19th, 20th, and 21st-century Latin American literature, cinema, and visual studies, as well as interdisciplinary courses on memory, human rights, and gender studies. In 2022, Prof. Forcinito received the University of Minnesota Motley Award for Exemplary Teaching.
Professor Forcinito is the author of Memorias y nomadías: géneros y cuerpos en los márgenes del posfeminismo (2004), Los umbrales del testimonio: entre las narraciones de los sobrevivientes y las marcas de la posdictadura (2012), Oyeme con los ojos: Cine, mujeres, voces, visiones (2018) (translated as Hear Me with Your Eyes: Women, Visions, Voices in Argentine Cinema [2022)], Intermittences: Memory, Justice, and the Poetics of the Visible (2019), and Testimonial Diffractions: Cultural and Legal Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Argentina (forthcoming 2026). She has edited and co-edited twelve essay collections on a range of interdisciplinary topics, including Layers of Memory and the Discourse of Human Rights (2014) and Humanidades médicas: Debates desde la literatura, el cine y las artes visuales (2024), as editor; and, as co-editor, Human Rights and Latin American and Iberian Cultures (2009), Poner el cuerpo: Rescatar y visibilizar las marcas sexuales y de género de los archivos dictatoriales (2017), Migraciones, derechos humanos y acciones locales (2020), Lo decible de la desaparición (2022), Generación Hijes: Memoria, posdictadura y posconflicto en América Latina (2023), and Repensar las poshumanidades (2025). In 2018 she received the Casa de las Américas Award for the book Óyeme con los ojos. She was the holder of the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair between 2013 and 2022 and has been the recipient of grants from the American Philosophical Society, the Rockefeller Humanities Programs at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Universidad de la República in Uruguay, the Institute of Advanced Studies, the CLA Collaborative, and the UMN Grant in Aid, among others.
She is the Executive Editor of Hispanic Issues and Hispanic Issues Online and the Cultural Studies editor of Editorial A Contracorriente.
Educational Background
- PhD: 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
- 19th-century literature with emphasis on the Southern Cone
- Latin American and Latinx feminist theory about gender violence
- Latin American film studies, with an emphasis on sound aesthetics
- Interdisciplinary approaches to testimonial narratives, memory and trauma studies
- Transdisciplinary Humanities