María Rosa Olivera-Williams
Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
(PhD, Ohio State University, 1983)
(On leave AY 2011-2012)
265 Decio Faculty Hall
574-631-7268
email: molivera@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/olivera-williams-maria-rosa/
Thematic interests: Latin American modern and contemporary representations of subjectivities and national identities; artistic projects from the Southern Cone; issues of dictatorship, democratic transition and traumatic memory.
Current research: “The Rhythms of Modernization: Tango, Ruin, and Historical Memory in the Rio de la Plata Countries,” funded by a J. William Fulbright Research Award. This new project questions how tango, the popular Rio de la Plataphenomenon that encompasses music, dance, and lyrics, became the embodiment of modernization and a strong national symbol of Argentina and Uruguay.
Selected publications: “Lo femenino delirante: La mujer desnuda de Armonía Somers,” in Romance Quarterly 58, 1 (2011); “La nueva vanguardia, tecnología y Árbol veloZ de Luis Bravo,” in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 14(2011); “La década del 70 en el Cono Sur: discursos nostálgicos que recuerdan la revolución y escriben la historia,” in Romance Quarterly 57 1 (2010); “The Twentieth Century as Ruin: Tango and Historical Memory,” in Telling Ruins in Latin America, Vicky Unruh and Michael Lazzara, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan 2009); El arte de crear lo femenino (Santiago, Chile: Cuarto Propio, forthcoming); coeditor, El salto de Minerva: Intelectuales, género, Estado en América Latina, with Mabel Moraña (Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2005); La poesía gauchesca de Hidalgo a Hernandez (Xalapa, Veracruz, México: Centro de Investigaciones Lingüistico-Literarias, Universidad Veracruzana, 1986).
