Rocío FERREIRA

Rocío Ferreira is the head of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Latin American Literature, Culture and Cinema at DePaul University in Chicago; she is also co-director of the international poetry festival, Poesía en Abril of Chicago. She received PhDs in Latin American Literature and in Women's Studies, Gender and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in 19th-century and contemporary literary and visual culture created by women. Her research areas are the founding narratives and journalism of the 19th century, war literatures (19th to 21st centuries) and contemporary issues related to the patterns of memory in literature, culture and cinema. She has published numerous critical articles in specialized books, journals, and critical editions, in addition to her monograph De las Veladas literarias a la Cocina ecléctica: mujeres, cultura y nación en el Perú decimonónico. She is currently preparing a book on the internal armed conflict, entitled Las mujeres disparan: Imágenes y poéticas de la violencia política (1980-2000) en la cultura literaria y visual peruana contemporánea.

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