| Epistemologies
of Torture: Limits, Bodies, Black Sites
The 5th Annual CLTC Graduate Student Conference
University of California, Santa Barbara
April 6th, 2007, Centennial House
Home | Call
for Papers | Schedule | Staged
Reading
Keynote Address
Friday, April 6, 2007,
3:30 - 4:45 PM
Keynote Speakers: Alicia Partnoy and Gail Wronsky
 Alicia
Partnoy is a survivor from the secret detention camps
where about 30,000 Argentineans disappeared. She is the author
of The Little School. Tales of Disappearance and Survival,
Revenge of the Apple-Venganza de la manzana, and
the editor of You Can't Drown the Fire: Latin American
Women Writing in Exile. Partnoy is the Chair of the Modern
Languages and Literatures Department at Loyola Marymount University
and co-editor of Chicana/Latina Studies:the journal of
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social . Her poetry
collection Little Low Flying/Volando bajito will
be published by Red Hen Press in 2005. She has just launched
Proyecto VOS - Voices of Survivors, an organization that brings
survivors of human rights abuses to lecture at colleges in
the U.S.
 Gail
Wronsky, professor of English at Loyola Marymount
University, is the author of five books including Dying
for Beauty (poems, Copper Canyon Press) and The Love-Talkers
(fiction, Hollyridge Press). Her new book of poems, Poems
for Infidels, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press as is
a collection of her translations of poems by Argentinean poetry
Alicia Partnoy. She has published poems in many journals and
anthologies, including Poets Against the War, The
Poet's Child, Antioch Review, Volt,
Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Pool,
and Hunger Mountain. She is currently Poetry Editor
of Los Angeles Review. She has a Ph.D. in English
and American Literature from the University of Utah and an
M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia,
where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. Her book reviews have
been widely published. She is the recipient of an Artists
Fellowship from the California Arts Council. Her areas of
teaching specialization include creative writing, modern and
contemporary poetry, surrealism, women's literature, and Latin
American poetry.
This event is a part of the Critical Issues
in America series:
Torture
and the Future
top
|
