Rocio Ferreira

Rocío Ferreira is Associate Professor of Latin American literature, culture and cinema and Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. She earned a doctorate in Latin American literature and in Women’s, Gender and Sexualities Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in nineteenth-century and contemporary literary and visual culture written by women. Her areas of research are foundational narratives and journalism of the 19th century, war literature (XIX-XXI), and contemporary issues related to the configurations of memory in literature, culture and cinema. She has participated in numerous international congresses, has published critical articles in specialized books and scholarly 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 writing a new book on women writing on the Peruvian internal armed conflict, entitled Las mujeres disparan: Imágenes y poéticas de la violencia política ​(1980-2000) en la cultura literaria y visual peruana contemporánea. Her current book project addresses the fundamental question of recent cultural responses by women (performances, literature, films and visual arts) to the Peruvian internal armed conflict (1980-2000) that resist amnesia. Her goal is to shed light on the diverse ways in which women have resisted silencing, oblivion and indifference, and have constructed alternative approaches to the understanding of traumatic reality through innovative reflections on the transmission of social memory. In this context, her project strengthens the relevance of the humanities to the understanding of recent Andean and Amazonian history and culture.