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Professor Alicia Partnoy Associate Professor of Spanish Director of the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program for Spanish Ph.D. and M.A., The Catholic University of America Certificate in Translation. The American University, Washington, D.C. Office: University Hall 3961 Phone: 310.338.3011 Email: apartnoy@lmu.edu

Area of Specialization:

Writing and Political Repression, Testimonio, Women Writers, Social semiotics, Contemporary Latin American Literature.

Selected Publications:

Books

• La Escuelita-Relatos testimoniales. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial La Bohemia, 2006.
• Volando bajito-Little Low Flying. Poetry. Translated by Gail Wronsky-California: Red Hen Press, 2005.
  
• The Little School. Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1998 (2nd edit.) 1986 (1st ed.)-London: Virago Press, 1987. (The London Times Best Sellers List-Feb. 1987).
• Revenge of the Apple-Venganza de la manzana. Poetry-Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1992.
• You Can’t Drown the Fire: Latin American Women Writing in Exile. Editor. Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1988-London: Virago Press, 1989.

• Chicana-Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. Co- editor (4:1, 4:2, 5:1,5:2; 6:1) 2004-2006.

• "Poetry as a Strategy for Resistance in the Holocaust and the Southern Cone Genocides." The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. Fragments of Memory. Kristin Ruggiero, ed. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2005, pp. 234-246.
• "The One Flower Slippers." (Short Story). (2005) In Baeza Ventura, Gabriela (Ed.) U.S. Latino Literature Today. New York: Pearson-Longman, pp.161-163.
• "Entrevista." Essay & Poems. Mujeres mirando al sur: Antologia de poetas sudamericanas en USA. Zulema Moret, ed. Madrid: Torremozas, 2004, pp.171-183.
• "On Being Shorter: Our Testimonial Texts and the U.S. Academia." Women Writing Resistance In Latin America and the Caribbean Islands. Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, ed. South End Press, 2003, p.151-167.
• "Chancletas con una sola flor," "Conversación bajo la lluvia," "La cajita de fósforos. " Short stories. "La escritura era una forma de resistir." Interview. Redes de la memoria. Edit. Jorge Boccanera.Argentina: Ediciones Instituto Movilizador de Fondos Cooperativos, 2000.pp 55-68.

• "Cuando Vienen Matando: On Prepositional Shifts and the Struggle of Testimonial Subjects for Agency." PMLA. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Vol. 121:5. October 2006, pp 1665-1669.
• "Pre-posiciones." Poem. Letras Femeninas. Vol XXXI-1, 2005, pp.219-220.