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SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

Books
The Space of Disappearance: A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror (Albany: SUNY Press, 2020).

Cartographies of Exile: A New Spatial Literacy, ed. Karen Elizabeth Bishop. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series. New York: Routledge, 2016.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
“The Design of Ecoethics: Repurposing the Tejas Verdes Torture Center.” Special issue on “Natural Media,” Electronic Book Review. Forthcoming September 2019.

“On Teaching the Close Reading of Torture Literature: An Approximation.” Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies, eds. Alexandra Schulteis and Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg. MLA Options for Teaching Series. New York: MLA, 2016. 178-188.

“The Architectural History of Disappearance: Rebuilding Memory Sites in the Southern Cone.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 73, No.4 (December 2014): 556-578.

“Estrellas precisas: On Translating the Fragments of Marcelo Uribe.” Translation Review, vol. 88.1 (Spring 2014): 13-25.

“The Propositional Logic of Mapping Transnational American Studies – A Response to Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s “DEEP MAPS: A Brief for Digital Palimpsest Mapping Projects.” Journal of Transnational American Studies 3(2) (Dec 2011).

“Myth Turned Monument: Documenting the Historical Imaginary in Buenos Aires and Beyond.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 30.2 (Winter 2007): 151-162.

Book Chapters
“Still Life: The Anti-Nostalgia of Adam Zagajewski.” Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe, ed. Agnieszka Gutthy. Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature Series, vol. 30. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 89-102.

Proceedings
“Open Spaces in Time: Kairos as Design for Rebuilding Memory Sites.” Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, vol. 10 (Dec 2018): 56-60. http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1995

Encyclopedia Entries
{Invited} “Documentary Narrative in Contemporary Spanish America,” “Macedonio Fernández,” “Tomás Eloy Martínez,” “Southern Cone Writing: Literature of Transition from Chile and Argentina,” “Torture in Modern Spanish American Literature.” World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia (vols. 1-3). Eds. Maureen Ihrie and Salvador Oropesa. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press, 2011. 301-303; 390-391; 605; 915-917; 967-969.

Book Reviews
{Invited} Gabriele Schwab, Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma. The Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature, vol.10.2 (Fall 2013). http://www.brynmawr.edu/bmrcl/HauntingLegacies.htm

{Invited} Paul Kong, The Raiders and Writers of Cervantes’ Archive: Borges, Puig, and García Márquez. Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol. 30.4 (October 2011). 566-568.