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Rocío Ferreira

Education

  • PhD - University of California, Berkeley:  2002
    • Major Area: Hispanic Languages and Literatures with a Designated Emphasis on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.  
    • Areas of Concentration:
      • Latin American (Spanish-American and Brazilian Literatures--all periods)
      • Modern and Contemporary Peninsular Literature
      • Modern and Contemporary French Literature
      • Women’s and Gender Studies and Film Studies. 

Research & Teaching Interests

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.

Select Publications

​   Articles

“Breaking the Silence: Telling Herstories on the Peruvian Post-Internal Armed Conflict.”  Cartographies of Violence in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Cinema. Spec. issue of Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies Journal 23.2 (Fall 2020).

Ferreira and Cárdenas. “De la leyenda romántica al cuento moderno.” De la Ilustración a la modernidad. Vol. III. Historia de las literaturas en el Perú. Eds. Chang-Rodríguez, Raquel, and Marcel Velázquez Castro. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Fondo Editorial, Casa de la Literatura Peruana, and Ministerio de Educación del Perú. (Lima: Aleph Impresiones, 2020).

“La trampa y los caminos recorridos por Magda Portal.” Libros & Artes. Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú. Número 93-94 (2020).

“Clorinda Matto de Turner, obrera de pensamiento”. Libros & Artes. Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú. Número 89-90. (2019).

“Un ejemplar intelectual y maestro: Antonio Cornejo Polar (1936-1997) y los años en la Universidad de California, Berkeley”. Descolonizando las teorías y metodologías. Lima: Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, CELACP / Latinoamericana Editores, 2019.

“Magda Portal y los caminos de la poesía a la narrativa”. Magda Portal Bibliografía Esencial. Colección Serie Bibliográfica. Lima: Red Literaria Peruana, 2019.

“Cuentos del postconflicto peruano: entre el dolor y la esperanza en Al fin de la batalla. Después del conflicto, la violencia y el terror”. América sin Nombre. 2017, 22.

“Subjetividades nómadas y queer durante la violencia política en tres novelas de Carmen Ollé, Aída Balta y Pilar Dughi.” Esta mística de relatar cosas sucias: Ensayos en torno a la obra de Carmen Olle. Lima: Latinoamericana Editores, 2016.

   Editorial

Ferreira, Rocío, and Isabel A. Quintana, eds. Cartographies of Violence in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Cinema. Spec. issue of Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies Journal 23.2 (Fall 2020).

Espezúa Salmón, Dorian, Rocío Ferreira, and Mauro Mamani Macedo, eds. Descolonizando las teorías y metodologías. Lima: Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, CELACP / Latinoamericana Editores, 2019.

“Introduction and Prologue”. Actas del I Congreso Internacional de Teorías, Crítica e Historias Literarias Latinoamericanas. Celebrando La Contribución de Antonio Cornejo Polar, edited by Ferreira et al. Lima: Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, CELACP /Latinoamericana Editores, 2018.

Espezúa Salmón, Dorian, Rocío Ferreira, and Mauro Mamani Macedo, eds. Actas del I Congreso Internacional de Teorías, Crítica e Historias Literarias Latinoamericanas. Celebrando La Contribución de Antonio Cornejo Polar. Lima: Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, CELACP /Latinoamericana Editores, 2018. 

   Book Reviews

“Rompiendo silencios en Perhaps de Erika Almenara.” Cartographies of Violence in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Cinema. Spec. issue of Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies Journal 23.2 (Fall 2020).

“Un canto al resplandeciente arco iris de Juanita Goergen”. Revista Contratiempo. No. 145, (summer 2019). https://issuu.com/contratiempo/docs/145_low/2

“La poesía de Febronio Zatarain”. Poetika 1. Número 3. (enero, 2019).

La frontera del paraíso (2018) de Eduardo González Viaña”. Espinela. Revista de literatura hispanoamericana de Pontificia Universidad Católica. Año 6. Número 8. (Noviembre, 2018).

   Service

  • Dr. Ferreira works closely with the following academic programs at DePaul University:
    • ​Women’s and Gender Studies Program
    • Latin American and Latino Studies Program
    • Center for Latino Research
    • African Black Diaspora Program
    • International Studies Program
    • Study Abroad Program
    • Global Learning Experience
  • D​r. Ferreira is an integral part of the following scholarly societies:
    • ​​Co-Chair of the Latin American Studies Association-LASA’S Peru Section
    • Board of Directors of Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar (CELACP), Lima, Peru
    • Editorial Advisory Committee of Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Dept. of Romance Languages, Tufts University, Boston
    • Editorial Advisory Board. Diálogo. An Interdisciplinary Journal Published by The Center for Latino Research at DePaul University, Chicago
    • Affiliated member of the Peru, Southern Cone, Brazil, Gender Studies and Film Studies Sections of Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
    • Affiliated member of the National Women’s Association (NWSA)
    • Affiliated member of the Modern Language Association (MLA)