Jordana Blejmar

Biography

I joined the School of the Arts in 2015, after previously working on an AHRC-funded project on Latin American Digital Art in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. Before moving to Liverpool I was a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London. I have also worked for the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO). I received my doctorate from the University of Cambridge where I was a Gates scholar. I am also a member of the steering committee of the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (London) and a founding member of the Federación de Centros de Investigación sobre Memoria en América Latina.

Research Interest

My research is situated at the meeting point of Latin American literary and visual cultures, memory studies and digital humanities. My book Playful Memories: The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) is a multimedia and trans-disciplinary study of non-traditional aesthetic strategies carried out by children of disappeared parents in Argentina and other members of that generation to confront the atrocities of the past, including autofiction, black humour and ludic memories of trauma. I have also published articles and book chapters on contemporary Latin American and Argentine literature, art, photography, theatre, digital artworks and film.