MargueriteFeitlowitz
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BookPublications:
ALEXICONOFTERROR:ArgentinaandtheLegaciesofTorture,(Oxford
UniversityPress(UpdatedEdition2011,1998,1999).NewYorkTimesBookReview
asanOutstandingBookof1998.Finalistforthe1998L.L.Winship/PENNew
EnglandPrizeforthebestbookbyaNewEnglandauthor.Basedonoversixyearsof
primaryresearchinArgneinta.
Pillar of Salt: An Autobiography with Nineteen Erotic Sonnets, by Salvador Novo, Introduction by Carlos Monsiváis, translated from the Spanish. Scheduled for Spring 2014, University of Texas Press. Excerpts published at wordswithoutborders.org, June 2012. BadBlood(Lamalasangre),byGriseldaGambaro,translatedby
MargueriteFeitlowitz,publishedbyDramaticPublishing,1994.
InformationforForeigners:ThreePlaysbyGriseldaGambaro,
edited,translatedandintroducedbyMargueriteFeitlowitz,
AfterwordbyDianaTaylor,publishedbyNorthwesternUniversity
Press,1992.IncludesTheWalls,InformationforForeigners,andAntígonaFuriosa.
TheatrePieces:AnAnthologybyLilianeAtlan,translatedbyMarguerite
Feitlowitz,IntroductionbyBettinaL.Knapp,ThePenkevillPublishingCo.,1985.
IncludesMisterFugue,TheMessiahs,TheCarriageofFlamesandVoices.
AtlanisaFrenchHolocaustwriterwhospentherchildhoodyearsduringthewarin
hiding.
SelectedJournal/SerialPublications
Translation, from the Spanish, of Griselda Gambaro’s “Lady with a Lapdog,” in Paragraphiti anthology, March 2016. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize. “IntheHouseofStories,”originalprosefiction,in91stMeridian,publishedby
theUniversityofIowaInternationalWritingProgram.
Translationof“TheWanderer,”byLuisaValenzuela,June20,2014,
http://www.InTranslation.BrooklynRail.org.
Translationof“MomentofReturn,”byLuisaValenzuela,inBrooklynRail,July‐
August,2014,http://www.brooklynrail.orgNominated for a Pushcart Prize. Translation, from the French, of eleven poems by Liliane Atlan, http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/french/poetry‐by‐liliane‐atlan, May 2015. “Hotel for the Dead: A Dream,” nominated for a Pushcart Prize. 2
Guest Editor (with Ksenija Bilbija) for Spring 2014 issue of REVIEW: Literature & Arts of Latin America. “Beyond Violence: Toward Justice,” and will focus
on the rising generation of highly inventive writers whose work reflects and engages with
legacies of violence, the vicissitudes of transition, and the cultural energies invigorated
by the quest for justice in recovering or still-precarious political situations. Contributors
include Benavides (Peru), Borinsky, Gelman, Valenzuela, Pron, (all from Argentina),
Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Colombia) Yuri Herrera (Mexico), Arturo Fontaine (Chile),
Marcelino Freire (Brazil).
Review‐Essay on La Vida Doble: A Novel, by Arturo Fontaine (Yale University Press, Margellos World Republic of Letters, 2013), Los Angeles Review of Books, Feb. 10, 2014. Review‐Essay on first English publication of Rodolfo Walsh’s Operation Massacre, Los Angeles Review of Books, September 2013. Extended interview with me, in The Breath of Theatre: Conversations and Reflections, 2003‐2013, Caridad Svich, NoPassport Press, 2013. “The Lady with the Lapdog,” by Griselda Gambaro, translated from the Spanish, in Paragrafiti, aliteraryandartsjournalpublishedinTehran,July2012. Review‐EssayonDavidScheffer’sAlltheMissingSouls:APersonalHistoryof
theWarCrimesTribunals,inBookForum,Feb‐March,2012.
“TheShadowofa‘DirtyWar,’BushandtheLawII,inTheInternational
HeraldTribune,August19‐20,2006.FeaturedonthePENAmericanCenterWebsite.
“TheTorturerGeneral,”onthenominationofAlbertoGonzalestopositionof
AttorneyGeneral,inSalon,January6,2005.ThispiecewasfeaturedonthePEN
AmericanCenterCoreFreedomsWebsideandsent,withaletterby(PENPresident)
SalmonRushdieandapiecebyMarkDanner,tomembersoftheSenateJudiciary
Committee.
InterviewwithGracielaSacco,inReview:LatinAmericanLiteratureandArts,
Spring2002.
ExtendedInterviewwithGracielaSaccoinBOMB,SpecialAmericas
Issue,Winter2002.
`WeKnowNothing.ItIsn’tTaught’:SecretHistoriesofArgentina’sDirtyWar,”
Agni,October2001,SpecialIssuetoCommemoratetheFortiethAnniversaryof
AmnestyInternational.
InterviewwithDorisSalcedo,intheCulturalSupplementtotheCrimesof
WarProjectOnlineMagazine[http://www.crimesofwar.org/magazine],August
2001.
“SweetnessandLight:ThePortraitsofVikMuniz,”inAméricas,July2001.
ReviewofAWorldMadeNew:EleanorRooseveltandtheUniversal
DeclarationofHumanRights,byMaryAnnGlendon,inTheWashingtonPost,May3,
2001.
“TakingOurMeasure:TheQuestforMeaninginEllenRothenberg’sTheAnne
FrankProject,”catalogueessayforinstallation/exhibitatGallery321,Chicago,
February‐April2001.
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"ThePinochetPrecedent,”three‐partseriesontheprosecutionoftheChilean
ex‐dictator,thegenocide‐chargecontroversy,andthecomplicatednewcalculusin
transnationaljustice,inCrimesofWar,on‐line,peer‐reviewedjournal,Spring‐
Summer2000.
"BritainMustLetChile'sPinochetStandTrial,"op‐edpieceinNewsday,
January27,2000.
MostRecentConferences/Lectures
ALTA(AmericanLiteraryTranslatorsAssociation)AnnualConference,Nov.
12‐15,2015Milwaukee:PanelChairandOrganizer:“PoliticsbyOtherMeans,”on
thechallengesassociatedwithtranslatingworksthatdealwithpoliticsinextremely
inventiveforms,inencodedgenres,orinalternatetimeperiods,aswaysofavoiding
censorship,ortocontestreceivednarrativesaboutcollectiveevents.Participants:
Ellen‐EliasBursac(Serbo‐Croatian),ReginaGalasso(Spanish),JenZoble(Bosnian),
SuzanneZweizig(German)
ConnecticutCollege,Nov.3,2015:Inconjunctionwiththeirproductionofmy
translationofGriseldaGambaro’sInformationforForeigners,I’llgiveatalkabout
thatworkandmytranslation;andalsoafullerlectureaspartoftheirMellon‐funded
“GlobalImaginationsSymposium”project.
BostonUniversity,LatinAmericanStudies,invitedbyAliciaBorinsky:we’re
stilldiscussingdates.
LASAPresidentialPanelOrganizer&Moderator,May2014:“Democraciay
Memoria:EnlacesenlaLiteratura.”Panelists:AliciaBorinsky,LisaRoseBradford,
ArturoFontaine,AlbertoMorreiras,AliceNelson.
HomagetoJuanGelman,BostonUniversity,April10,2014.Co‐panelistwith
filmmakerJuanMandelbaumandAliciaBorinsky,BUDirectorofLatinAmerican
Studies.
“Memory&Democracy,”HarvardUniversity,Nov.1‐2,2014.Conference
paperonArgentinenovelistsLuisGusmán, Alicia Plante, Patricio Pron. American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Annual Conference,
Rochester, NY, Oct. 3‐6, 2012. Co‐Chaired Panel on The Art of Teaching Literary
TranslationtoCreativeWriters.Co‐Panelists:WillisBarnstoneandAlikiBarnstone.
BrownUniversity,“ArgentinaandtheLegaciesofTorture,”large‐format
lecture,classvisit(graduate/advancedundergraduate),April5‐6,2011.Sponsored
byOfficeofInternationalAffairs,WatsonInstituteforInternationalAffairs,Center
forLatinAmericanandCaribbeanStudies,DepartmentsofComparativeLiterature,
andTheatreArtsandPerformanceStudies.
SelectedMajorGrantsandAwards
FulbrightScholarsforthe21stCenturyWorkingGroup,May18‐26,2006,
BellagioStudyCenter,Bellagio,Italy:Thisinternationalworkinggroup(consisting
ofbothscholarsandactivists)iswillconsidertherepercussionsofwar,political
trauma,andrepressiononcultureandcollectivememory.
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FulbrightSeniorScholar(1999):TaughtatUniversidadNacionaldeLaPlata,
andlecturedthroughoutArgentina.
FulbrightResearchGrant(1992‐93)inArgentinaforwhatwouldbecomeA
LexiconofTerror.
MaryIngrahamBuntingFellowship,RadcliffeCollege(1993‐94),forworkon
ALexiconofTerror.
HarvardUniversityFacultyResearchGrant(1998).
EarlySabbaticalAward,BenningtonCollege(2005)
Member:
PEN
TheAuthorsGuild,
ALTA(AmericanLiteraryTranslatorsAssociation)