Nora Strejilevich
Assistant Professor
San Diego State University
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-7703
Phone: (619)-594-6210
E-mail: strejil@mail.sdsu.edu
DEGREES
Ph.D. Latin American Literature, U of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1991
Dissertation: Literatura testimonial en Chile, Argentina y Uruguay (1975 1985)
M.A. Licenciada en Filosofia, University of Buenos Aires, 1974
EXPERTISE
Latin American literature, Contemporary Testimonial Literature
TEACHING POSITIONS AND RANK HELD
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track (2000 Present)
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
San Diego State University
Major Subject: Latin American Literature and Culture
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track (1999 2000)
Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures
Grand Valley State University
Major Subject: Spanish language
Lecturer, University of Virginia
Spanish Department (1997 98, and Spring 1999)
Major Subjects: Latin American Literature and Culture, and Spanish language
Assistant Professor, Southern Oregon University
Modern Languages Department (1994 96)
Major Subjects: Latin American Literature and Culture, and Spanish language
Lecturer, University of Calgary
Modern Languages Department (1993 94)
Major Subjects: Latin American and Peninsular Literature, Translation and Spanish language
Lecturer, University of Alberta
Department of Modem Languages (1990 92)
Major Subjects: Latin American and Peninsular Literature and Culture, and Spanish language
Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia
Department of Spanish and Italian Studies (1980 86)
Major Subject: Spanish language
Teaching Assistant, University of Buenos Aires
Department of Philosophy (1975 77)
Major Subject: Theory and Methodology
I. TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS
TEACHING INNOVATIONS
Writers’ Series, SDSU. Co-organizer with Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC), and Love Library (2004)
Adams Minigrant for Study Travel to Argentina regarding Human Rights and Literature, SDSU Course: Spanish Special Studies 798. San Diego State University Foundation (2003)
Development of Instructional Programs for the Web: Virtual interactive programs on human rights for advanced language instruction. LARC, SDSU (2000 and 2004)
Videotaped testimony: Archive of Survivor Narratives (ISNA) Data-base with survivor accounts. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy and SDSU (1997-2004)
Videotaped documentary: Argentine Testimonial Archive. Buenos Aires (1999)
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Special Studies (Spanish 798). San Diego State University Foundation. Adams Minigrant support for study travel to Argentina regarding Human Rights and Literature. I took five graduate students for one month to carry out research on different topics related to literature, art and human rights. Summer 2003
Graduate Seminar (Spanish 755) entitled “Literature, Language and Human Rights.” I developed this new graduate seminar with the objective of offering a panoramic review of the evolution of this topic through representative works in poetry, testimony, novel, short story, theatre, film, visual arts and essay. Fall 2004
Graduate Seminar (Spanish 755) entitled “Violence and Literature in the Southern Cone.” The course structure combined theory, culture and literature. Each approach was studied using critical texts and movies that widened the scope of interpretation, and also incorporated video material I have collected. Fall 2003
Course (502) entitled “Tetstimonial Literature.” The course delineated the development of this genre throughout the Americas. Spring 2003
Graduate Seminar (Spanish 755) entitled “Contemporary Social and Cultural Movements in Latin America.” The course delineated developments in narrative, poetry, film and visual arts in relation to social and cultural movements of the 20th century in Latin America. Fall 2002
INDEPENDENT STUDIES, THESES CHAIRED
Independent Study, Spring 2004, SDSU - Student: Ana Cecilia Martínez. “Human Rights in Literature.” Research and compilation of content material for inclusion into LARC web site.
Independent Study, Spring 2003, SDSU – Student: Luz Delgado-Rodríguez. “Testimonial Literature.” Contemporary testimonial writings throughout Latin America.
Thesis Director, 2004, SDSU – Student: Prisca Bermúdez. “A study on La Ciudad Ausente” by Ricardo Piglia.
II. PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
To appear by June/July 2005. Terrorismo de estado y testimonio revisión de un pasado reciente en Chile y Argentina. Lima: Ediciones El Santo Oficio, 2005
Forthcoming: Re-edition of Una sola muerte numerosa, Catálogos SRL, Buenos Aires, 2005
Submitted: Narratives of Loss and Revival: An Argentinean Experience. U of Virginia Press
A Single, Numberless Death (Collaboration in Cristina de la Torre’s translation) Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002
Una sola muerte numerosa, Miami: North South Center Press, 1997
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
To appear in: “The Construction of anti-Semitic Discourse in Contemporary Argentina," in collaboration with Alejandro Kaufman. Critical Conjunctions: Violence, Memory, and the Global Intellectual in the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century, edited by Peter Carravetta and Marta Bermudez. Purdue University Press, Spring 2005.
“Too many names.” Taking Route. Ohio: Ohio U Press, 2002: 272
DIGITAL MEDIA
“Los desaparecidos” (2002) and Language, Literature and Human Rights.” (2004): LARC http://larcdma.sdsu.edu/dirtywar/
“La función crítica y estética como eje de una política cultural destinada a Latinoamérica" http://www.utexas.edu/cola/llilas/events/oldevents/culturaypaz/strejilevich.pdf
NON-FICTIONAL WRITING IN JOURNALS
A Single, Numberless Death (excerpts) in “Woman as Witness: Essays on Testimonial Literature by Hispanic Women.” U of Arizona Press, 2002
“Terror in Argentina,” Crime & Social Justice 30: 104 112 (1987): 104-112
“About Survivals.” Southwest Review. Volume 85, No. 3 “Human Rights in the Americas, 2000:354-375-290
SHORT STORIES AND POEMS
“Una sola muerte numerosa: páginas sueltas y memorias arraigadas”.in Revista del Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Varsovia (CESLA) No3, Año 3 2002: 178-182
“Diccionario Incompleto para Travesías” Documentos del CECYM (Centro de Encuentros Cultura y Mujer) Travesías 11: Temas de debate feminista contemporáneo. Año 10, Nov.2002:153-164
“Cuando me robaron el nombre/ When they robbed my name” (poem) in Miriam’s Daughters: Jewish Latin American Poets, ed. Marjorie Agosín. Santa Fe: Sherman Asher, 2001:180-184
“La construcción del sentido” in Celebración de la creación literaria de escritoras hispanas en las Américas. Ottawa/Montreal: Girol/Enana blanca, 2000.241-244
“El horror forma parte de lo que somos” in Redes de la memoria, ed. Jorge Boccanera. Buenos Aires: Desde la Gente, 2000: 109-116
“Una sola muerte numerosa. Fragmentos” in Mujer, cuerpo y encierro. Documentos del CECYM (Centro de Encuentros Cultura y Mujer). Travesías 9: Temas de debate feminista contemporáneo. Año 7, Dec. 2000:135-146
“Crónica de una muerte no anunciada” (short story. Alias: Nora Nadir) Noaj, Rev. de la Asoc. Internacional de Escritores Judíos en Lengua Hispana y Portuguesa. 21, 1995: 32-37
“NN” (poem). Antología de escritura hispano canadiense. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1988 and “La vieja” (poem). Aquí, 2, 1984
AWARDS AND GRANTS
FUNDED RESEARCH GRANTS
Grant for Instructional Development. Incorporation of New Technology in the classroom
Graduate Assistant Support (GAS) granted for technological assistance (2001, 2004)
San Diego State University Foundation (SDF) Adams grant for study travel of Master students to Argentina for research on Human Rights and Literature. Spanish Special Studies 798 (July 2003)
CSU Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. Summer Fellowship Grant from College of Arts and Letters, SDSU, for the writing of “Narratives of Loss, a South American Experience.” (May 2001)
Institute for the Study of anti-Semitism (SICSA), Hebrew U of Jerusalem. Research: “The Construction of anti-Semitic Discourse in Contemporary Argentina.” Granted to Nora Strejilevich. Jointly authored with Alejandro Kaufman (1998-2000)
Rockefeller Fellowship. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (VFH), Institute on Violence, Culture, and Survival. Charlottesville, VA. (Spring-Fall 1996)
Research Assistant Grant. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Institute on Violence, Culture, and Survival. Charlottesville, VA. (Fall 97-Fall 98)
Exploration’s grant for documentary fiction Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa. (1992)
LITERARY AWARDS
National Literary Award Letras de Oro for Una sola muerte numerosa (novel). University of Miami: North South Center (1996)
Literary award for “Una versión de mí misma” and honorary prize for “NN” (novella and poem) University of Alberta, Edmonton. (1991)
Literary prize for testimony “Sobre vivencias” in Symposium of Hispanic Canadian Women Writers, Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Ontario. 1990
UNIVERSITY GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS
University Graduate Fellowship. University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. (1981-83)
Tina & Morris Wagner Foundation Fellowship. UBC, Vancouver, Canada. (1883-84)
Summer U Graduate Fellowship. UBC, Vancouver, Canada. (1983-84)
University Graduate Fellowship UBC, Vancouver, Canada. (1985-1986)
RECOGNITIONS FOR MY WRITING
BOOK REVIEWS
Literary Journals, USA
Janis Breckendrige. A Single, Numerous Death by Nora Strejilevich. Letras Femeninas 29.1 (2003): 244-6
María del Mar López-Cabrales. Hispamérica 30:89. Aug. 2001: 119-120
Ileana Rodríguez. “Quedarme conmigo. No dejarme sola ni por casualidad. Memoria, historia:
Una sola muerte numerosa” in Letras Femeninas, 24:1-2. Spring-Fall 1998: 203-206
Victoria Cox. Hispanic Journal, 21: 1. Fall 1998: 103-104
Cynthia Tompkins. Feministas Unidas. 17:2. Fall 1997: 30
Newspapers
Naomi Klein, Interviewed for the documentary “Gustavo Benedetto, ¡Presente!.” Klein-Lewis Productions, 2002
Conference Papers on Una sola muerte numerosa and A Single, Numberless Death
“Argentine Women Writing Against the State,” ALFH Panel, upcoming RM/MLA, Scottsdale,
Arizona, October 2002
Janis Breckenridge. “Argentine Women Writing Against the State,” RM/MLA, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 2002
“Taking the Stand: Examining the Testimonial Process in Nora Strejilevich’s Una sola muerte numerosa.” XII International Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Hispánica (ALFH). University of Kentucky. September 2001
“Breaking the Penal Code: The Prison Memoirs of Alicia Partnoy, Alicia Kozameh and Nora Strejilevich,” M/MLA, Kansas City, November 2000
“Defying the Establishment: Creative Strategies in Women’s Testimonial Fiction,” Global Justice/Women’s Rights, Southern Connecticut State U, October 1999
“The Representation of Torture in Women’s Novels from the Southern Cone,” Investigating and Combating Torture U of Chicago, March 1999
“Rethinking the Writer, the Reader, and the Critic in Hispanic Women’s Writing,” Lexington, Kentucky, September 2001
“Breaking the Penal Code: The Prison Memoirs of Alicia Partnoy, Alicia Kozameh and Nora Strejilevich,” M/MLA, Kansas City, Missouri, November 2000
“Defying the Establishment: Creative Strategies in Women’s Testimonial Fiction,” Global Justice/Women’s Rights, Southern Connecticut State University, October 1999
“The Representation of State Repression and Torture in Women’s Novels from the Southern Cone,” Investigating and Combating Torture: Explorations of a New Human Rights Paradigm, University of Chicago, March 1999
Fernando Reati. “Trauma y nuevas memorias de prisión en los 90: A fuego lento de Mario Paoletti y Una sola muerte numerosa de Nora Strejilevich” (“Trauma and new memories of prison in the 90s”). Latin American Studies Association, XXII International Congress. Session: Reconstructing memory: Argentine literature in the ‘90s. Miami, March 2000
Bob Mayberry. “A Single, Numberless Death, Testimony and Play.” Festival 2000. Memory, Gender, and Representation. Grand Valley State University. Michigan. March 2000
“Defying the Establishment: Creative Strategies in Women’s Testimonial Fiction.” (Global Justice/Women’s Rights Conference, Southern Connecticut State University), October 1999
Carmen Tisnado. “Una sola muerte numerosa: del testimonio ficcionalizado al testimonio autobiográfico” (A Single, Numberless Death: from the fictionalized to the autobiographical testimony). VII Congreso Costarricence de Filología Lingüística y Literatura Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, October 1997
Cox, Victoria. “Memoria y escritura: dos autoras argentinas narran sus testimonios de prisión y violencia”. LASA. Guadalajara, Mexico, October 1997
Courses including A Single, Numberless Death, and the author as guest speaker
Course: LAS 250 Bearing Witness: Testimonial Narratives in the Americas. Hood College (Spring 2005)
San Diego State University. Course: LATAM 499 - “Social Economic Development in Latin American Literature.” Professor V. Jones-Wagner. Lecture: October 2004
San Diego State University. Course: “Language, Literature and Human Rights” (Span 755).
Prof. Strejilevich. Fall 2004
San Diego State University. Course: “International Social Work and Social Welfare.” School of Social Work. Lecture in Winter 2004. Professor David Engstrom. (His article “Working with Survivors of Torture: Approaches to Helping,” in Families and Society (2004) quotes A Single...)
San Diego State University. Course: “Testimonial Literature” (Span 502). Prof. Strejilevich. Fall 2002
University of San Francisco. Course: “Latin American Perspectives.” Latin American Studies (2003-2004). Prof. Susana Kaiser. Lecture on Fall 2004
Wellesley College. Course: “The Writer and Human Rights in Latin America.” Marjorie Agosin Fall 2004
Wellesley College Course: “Jewish Women writers of Latin America.” Prof. Marjorie Agosín.
Fall 2002-2004
Waterloo University, Ontario, Canada. University of Waterloo. Dept. of Spanish and Latin American Studies. Span 400. Contemporary Testimonial Literature.. Prof. Maria del Carmen Sillato. Fall 2003
Hood College. Course: “Honors 302. Third World development in Latin America.” Prof. Griselda Zuffi. Lecture, Fall 2002
Hood College Latin American Testimonio: Denunciation and Contestation. Spring 2003
Cultural Responses to Human Rights Violations. Prof. Griselda Zuffi. Fall 2001 Lecture on Testimony and Writing. November 2001
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City. Course: “Contemporary Latin American Literature of the 20th century (since 1998)”, and seminar: “Authoritarianism and Narrative” Prof. Sandra Lorenzano. Spring 2001
New York University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Course: “Topics in Latin American Literature and Culture. Representing Violence in Southern Cone Literature.” Prof. Judith Filc. Lecture, Spring 2001
Franklin & Marshall College. Course: “Literature of Exile.” Prof. Carmen Tisnado. Lecture, Spring 2001
The University of Chicago. Course: “Cultural Responses to Human Rights Violations: The Case of Argentina’s Dirty War.” Prof. Janis Breckenridge. Lecture, Fall 2001
San Diego State University. Course:”Testimonial Literature” (Span 502 Spanish). Prof. Strejilevich. Fall 2000
American University. Course: “Testimonial Texts.” Prof. Alicia Partnoy. Lecture, Fall 1997
Ph.D. Dissertations that discuss my work
Annette Levine. “Narrating Argentina in the Aftermath of the Dirty War.” University of California, Santa Barbara (to be completed by June 2005)
Graciela Giordano. Hispanic Studies. McGill University, Montreal, Canada. (to be completed by May 2005)
Janis Breckenridge “The Representation of Violence and the Violence of Representation: Argentine Women Writing Against the State.” University of Chicago, Dec. 2002
Masters Thesis
Daniela Opitz: “The crisis of the narrative instance: monologicity and dialogicity in Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner without a name, cell without a number and A Single, Numberless Death.” University of Bielefeld, Germany (M.A. thesis to be completed by 2005)
Marlene Hamra Sasson. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). “Memoria y literatura: sobre Una sola muerte numerosa” (2003)
Film
“Nora does not live here any longer.” Collaboration with Fabio Grimaldi and Stella Di Tocco (Dinamoitalia Production), inspired by A Single, Numberless Death (2003-2004)
“Play on Words.” Project of Ibermedia awarded a Seed Price by the Dutch Jan Vrijman Fund Documentary film on the work and life stories of Nora Strejilevich, Alicia Kozameh, Sara Rosenberg, Maria del Carmen Sillato, Cristina Feijóo, and Alicia Partnoy. (March 2001)
Theatre (Collaboration)
“A Single, Numberless Death,” adapted by Bob Mayberry New International Plays vol.2 Roger Ellis, Editor ( Colorado: Meriwether Publishing, LTD, 2004). Performance: Grand Valley State University Theater and Tour through Michigan, in 2002. Two Meritorious Achievement Awards from Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KC/ACTF).
Paper on adaptation process of “A Single, Numberless Death,” read by Bob Mayberry during the National Theater Conference “Beyond Boal: Art and Community Development Theater for the 21st Century.” Fall 2001
Book Exhibits
Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (International Book Fair), 1998
Feria Internacional del Libro de Puerto Rico, (International Book Fair), 1997
Poetry Exhibits
Several of these poems were selected by Academia lberoamericana de Poesía for “Poemas Poster. Exhibition.” St. Thomas University. Fredericton, Canada. September 1998, 1999, October 2000 / 2001, and March 2002
Musical Performances
“Nos queda la palabra” by Gabriel Jakovkis (poetry and music). Fragments of A Single, Numberless Death was incorporated to the show, with music created by the artist. Barcelona, Spain (June 2001)
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Communication in Borderlands. 53rd Annual Conference. International Communication Association. Session: Communication, Memory, and Resistance in Argentina. Paper: “Communication and Participatory Democracy in Contemporary Argentina.” San Diego, California, May 2003
Regional Alternative Theater Conference (RAT). University of San Francisco. Session: Cross-Media: Sharing Struggles, Sharing Secrets. Lecture: “The Process of Adaptation of A Single, Numberless Death. The author’s vision.” San Francisco, California, October 2002
Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Chair of sessions:
1. Strategies of Memory/ Politics of Oblivion. The “ Debt State ” in Southern Cone Post-dictatorships.
2. Proyecto artístico y solidario de escritoras latinoamericanas.
Paper: “Las manos de la memoria: narrativas testimoniales tejidas de sur a norte.” Miami, Florida, March 2000
The 9th Annual Women’s Studies Conference. Paper: “Creative Strategies in Women’s Testimonial Fiction.” Southern Connecticut State University, October 1999
X International ALFH Conference, “La mujer y la literatura hispánica hacia el año 2000.”
Paper: “Textos y testimonios: género y derechos humanos en la Argentina.” Querétaro. Mexico, September 1999
Meeting of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALALCS). Latin America, Moving Beyond Neo-Liberalism. Chair and Discussant: Latin American Jewish Literature. Paper: “El desexilio en el país de lengua compartida.” (“The end of exile in the country of shared language”). Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, Canada, March 1998
Jewish Latin American Women Writers. Discussant: “Narratives of Survival and Violence.”
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH). Charlottesville, Virginia, April 1997
XXI International LASA Congress: Session: Monuments, commemorative spaces and representation in Southern Cone historical memory. Paper: “Keeping wounds open: A political strategy of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo”. Guadalajara, Mexico, March 1997
XXI Congress of the Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas (Canadian Association of Hispanists). Paper: “Argentine Testimonial Literature.” Université du Québec a Montreal, Canada, May 1995
Association of Teachers Conference. Paper: “Performance in the classroom.” Guelph University, Ontario, March 1995
Graduate Students Conference Session: Literature in Latin America, New Development. Paper: “Narrative fiction and historical narrative,” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, June 1994
Learned Societies Congress. Paper: “Argentine Literature of the ‘80s.” University of Calgary. Canada, May 1994
Learned Societies Congress. Paper: “Contemporary Spanish Theatre: Max Aub.” University of Québec, Montréal, Canada, May 1984
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
The Author’s Guild
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA)
III. SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND THE COMMUNITY
WRITERS’ VISITS TO CAMPUS
Writers’ Series. Poet Naín Nomez, writers Cristina Feijóo, Alicia Kozameh, and Roberto Rivera, script-writer Alejandra Naftal and Mother of Plaza de Mayo Nora Cortiñas, San Diego State University, Spring 2004
Writers’ visits to campus, San Diego State University, co-organizer with Joan Lindgren. Poet Francisco Morales Santos. San Diego State University, 2001
Writers’ visits to campus, organizer. Alicia Kozameh. Southern Oregon University 1997
Tour organizer. Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo tour, including Hood College, Trinity College, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American St. (Harvard University), Marymount University, San Diego State University. February-March 1998
COMMITTEES IN WHICH I HAVE SERVED
Department of Spanish and Portuguese:
• Temporary Teaching Staff Peer Review Committee (Fall 2003/Spring 2004): Observation and evaluation of teaching performance of Teaching Associates and lecturers.
• Masters Final Exam Committee (2003–2004): Preparation of reading lists, meeting with students throughout their period of preparation, discussion with students during oral exams, evaluation of students.
Consuelo Linn (May 2004); Cecilia Olaguez (May 2004); Elsa Orozco-Toops (May 2003); Luz Rodriguez (April 2003)
• Curriculum Committee (2002–2003): Matters dealt with included changes in numbers and names of existing courses, screening of proposals for new courses, and curricular problems.
Center for Latin American Studies:
• Executive Committee (2003–2004): Re-evaluation of the Center’s procedures; review of matters such as topics of focus for courses, and comprehensive exams.
• Masters Final Exam Committee: Between 2000 and 2004, I participated as a member in three final comprehensive exams. I was head of examination in the Spring of 2004. Tasks involved preparation of reading lists, meeting with students throughout their period of preparation, discussion with students during oral exams, evaluation of students.
As Head of Comprehensive Exam Committee:
Celia Balistieri (Spring 2004)
April Flak (April 2003); Sonia Trejo (Dec. 2000)
LITERARY READINGS AND LECTURES
XII International Research Conference of Latin American Jewish Association (LAJSA).
Paper: “Terrorismo de Estado y antisemitismo: una experiencia argentina” (“State Terror and Anti-Semitism, an Argentine Experience”). Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 2004
Hofstra University, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. “Critical Conjunctions: Latin American and Latino Intellectuals at the New Millennium. Session: Memory, Subjectivity, Identity: Argentina Resisting in the Aftermath of State Terrorism. Lecture on “Una sola muerte numerosa” Hempstead, New York, April 2004
University of San Francisco. “Latin American Perspectives.” San Francisco, California.
May 2004
University of Denver. “The Writing of Collective Trauma: A Testimony of the Dirty War in Argentina.” Denver, Colorado. March 2004
Culture and Peace Conference. University of Texas. Session: Violence, Politics and Representation in the Americas. “La función crítica y estética como eje de una política cultural destinada a Latinoamérica.” Austin, Texas, March 2003
III Congress of Hispanic Poetry in Europe and the Americas. Poetry reading. University of Pecs, Hungary. May 2002
Vassar College Fall Lecture Series. Dept. of Hispanic Studies. Lecture: “From Justice to Memory.” November 2001
Hood College, “Fiction and Politics.” Frederick, Maryland. November 2001
Hunter College. Keynote Speaker. Cunny, New York. September 2001
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Second Annual Conference and Seminar: Performance and Politics in the Americas: Memory, Atrocity, and Resistance. Lecture: “Una sola muerte numerosa, from Narrative to Performance” Monterrey, México. June 2001
New York University in Buenos Aires. “On Violence and Writing.” Buenos Aires, Argentina. April 2001
Human Rights Awareness Conference: “Torture, Repression, and Exile.” San Diego State University, San Diego, California. April 2001
Amnesty International Film Festival. Keynote speaker. “Silence and Speaking Out: Women’s Protest Through Creativity in Latin America.” Amsterdam, Holland. March 2001
Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania. “Writing about catastrophe: testimonial literature in Argentina.” March, 2001
Justice Conference, Marymount University, Los Angeles, California. Keynote Speaker.
October 2000
Tercer Encuentro de Fotografía Periodística y Documental México-Estados Unidos (Third Meeting of Documentary Photography Mexico-USA). Lecture: “Desaparecidos.” Tijuana, Mexico. October 2000
“The Writing of Collective Trauma: An Argentinean Jewish Response to Persecution,” Lipinsky Institute of Judaic Studies at San Diego State University. October 2000
50 ICA Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (50th International Congress of Americanists) Varsovia, Warsaw University. “Literary Encounter in Warsaw, Women of Letters of the World.” Poland. July 2000
Hunter College. “On Testimony.” Keynote Address with Alicia Partnoy. Cunny, New York. May 2000
Coloquio Internacional: Celebración de la Escritura Femenina Contemporánea en las Américas (International Colloquium: Celebration of Contemporary Women’s Writing in the Americas). Concordia University, Montréal. March 2000
The Fifth Annual Virginia Book Festival. (with Poet Peter Ochs). Lecture:: “Violence, Survival, and Memoir.” Charlottesville, Virginia. March 2000
American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). 22nd Annual Conference. New York. October 1999
First Symposium of Hispanic Canadian Women Writers. York University, Toronto. March 1999
Women’s History Month: Lecture: “From Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ to the Present: A Writer’s Testimony.” University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Texas. March 1999
Human Rights at Home: 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. University of Virginia. December 1998
P.E.N. International, Segundo Encuentro de Escritoras Latinoamericanas (Second Meeting of Latin American Women Writers). “Testimony,” Guadalajara, Mexico. December 1998
“Disappearances in Argentina: Nights of Fear.” Wellesley College Series on “In the Threshold of Memories: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration.” November 1998
First International Conference at George Washington University (Fundación Cultural Iberoamericana). “Madness, Illness and Bodies: The Hispanic Woman Writer and her Fragmented World.” Latin American Women Writers’ Session. October 1998
Nobel Peace Laureates Conference Educational Series: Symposium on War and Survival: Paper: “Violence, Poetry, and Survival.” Charlottesville, Virginia. October 1998
XXI International LASA Congress. “Escritura y justicia social” (“Writing and social justice”, Writers session). Chicago, Illinois. September 1998
Primer Encuentro Internacional de Escritoras (First International Women Writers Meeting). Centro Cultural Bernardino Rivadavia. Rosario, Argentina. August 1998
Colloquium series at American University: Women and Collective Memory: Lecture: “Women and testimony in Argentina.” Washington, D.C. April 1998
In Honor of International Women’s Day. “Women Shaping Human Rights Around the Globe” Women Studies Program. Long Island University. March 1998
University of Texas, El Paso. “Writing Under Dictatorships.” Women Studies Program.
March 1998
“Silence and Speaking Out: Women’s Protest Through Creativity in Latin America.” Connecticut College (Hispanic Studies), New London, Connecticut. November 1997
Conferencia Internacional de la Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (International Conference of the Hispanic Women’s Literature Association). Emory U, Atlanta, Georgia. October 1997
Conversations with Scholars’ Series. “Narratives of Survival and Violence.” Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. Charlottesville, Virginia April 1997
“From Argentina ’s Dirty War to the Present: A Writer’s Testimony.” The University of New Mexico. March 1997
XIII Symposium of Literature. Instituto Literario Cultural e Hispánico. California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, California. August 1995
LITERARY JUDGE
Judge for the Annual Creative Writing Contest. Arts International Cintas Foundation. New York. 1998
LEGAL TESTIMONY
Witness’ Testimony on the “Dirty War.” Judge Baltazar Garzón, Audiencia Nacional. Madrid, Spain. July 1998
Expert Witness on Hearing for Refugee Status on behalf of María Eva Urrutia. Immigration and Refugee Board, Vancouver, B.C. Canada. March 20, 1995.
PLAYS
“Bodas que fueron famosas del Pingajo y la Fandanga” by J. M. Rodriguez Mendez, University of Virginia. Charlottesville, Virginia (1998)
“Un hogar sólido,” by Elena Garro, University of Virginia (1997)
“Sanctuary?” Headlines Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia (1989-90)
“Y fue santero” by Alejandro Roncería (1986), “El deseo atrapado por la cola” by Pablo Picasso (1985) and “Picnic on the Battlefield” by Fernando Arrabal (1983), all by the Hispanic Cultural Workshop (Nora Strejilevich and Gerardo Avila). Vancouver, B.C., Canada
VIDEO AND FILM PRODUCTIONS
Collaborator and Performer. “Nora does not live here any longer” (see Recognitions for My Writing p.10). 2004
Interviewed for the documentary “Gustavo Benedetto, ¡Presente!.” (see Recognitions for My Writing p. 7). 2002
Producer: “Archivo Testimonial Argentino” (Argentine Testimonial Archive). VFH and SDSU 1998-2004
Scriptwriter: “What happened to our honeymoon?” Public Legal Education Society, Vancouver 1990
Dubbing: “Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.” Public Legal Education Society, Vancouver, 1990
LANGUAGES
Reading, writing, and speaking knowledge of Spanish, English, and French
Reading and speaking knowledge of Portuguese and Italian
Speaking knowledge of Hebrew
TRAVEL
Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, Spain,
Portugal, England, France, Italy, Greece, The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Israel, Egypt, South Africa, Japan, United States and Canada (1972 - 2004)
Nora Strejilevich
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