Postdoctoral Researcher
Jordana Blejmar is a Research
Associate at the
School of the Arts,
after previously working on an AHRC-funded project on Latin American Digital
Art in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool.
She was a Lecturer in
Hispanic Studies at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of
London and taught Latin American film and literature in Manchester, Cambridge
and Liverpool. She is a member of the steering committee of the Centre for the
Study of Cultural Memory (London). Originally a literature graduate from the
Universidad de Buenos Aires, she was awarded an MPhil and a PhD (as a Gates
Scholar) at Cambridge University. She curated art exhibitions in Paris,
Liverpool and Buenos Aires. She is the co-editor (together with Natalia Fortuny
and Luis Ignacio García) of Instantáneas de la memoria: Fotografía y
dictadura en Argentina y América Latina (2013, Libraria) and of two special
issues: Revisiting Postmemory: The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
in Latin American Culture (with Fortuny, Journal of Romance Studies, 2013)
and Argentine Poetry Today: New Writing, New Readings (with Ben Bollig, Bulletin
of Hispanic Studies, 2016). She is the author of Playful Memories: the Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
(Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).