SELECTED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:
Book: Alice A. Nelson, Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature(Lewisberg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2002). Explores the relationship between Chilean new social movements and literary forms, in the context of the transition to democracy. Emphasizes the body as a political space where social contests for power may be waged. Authors studied include Ariel Dorfman, David Benavente, Pía Barros, Diamela Eltit, and Isabel Allende.
Book Chapter: “Marketing Discontent: The Politics of Memory in Latin America,” concluding chapter of Ksenija Bilbija and Leigh A. Payne, eds. Accounting for Violence: Marketing Memory in Latin America (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011).
Recent Scholarly Article: “(Re)Inscribing Memory within the Chilean Postdictatorship Landscape: Recent Art Actions by Malú Urriola and Nadia Prado.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 16.2 (August 2007): 201-217. Republished in Portuguese as “(Re)Inscrevendo a Memória no Panorama Chileno Pós-ditadura: Performances Poético-Políticas de Malú Urriola e Nadia Prado,” translation by Carla Portilho, Caderno de Letras da Universidade Federal Fluminense (Rio de Janiero) No. 33 (November 2007).
Selected Translations: Nelly Richard, Masculine/Feminine: Practices of Difference(s), translated by Silvia Tandeciarz and Alice A. Nelson (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004) and The Insubordination of Signs: Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis, translated by Alice A. Nelson and Silvia Tandeciarz (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004).
“Scents of Wood and Silence,” translation of Pía Barros, “Olor a madera y silencio.” Included in Yvette Miller and Kathleen Ross, eds. Scents of Wood and Silence: Short Stories by Latin American Women Writers (Pittsburgh: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1991). Reprinted in Pía Barros, A horcajadas/ Astride, trans. Analisa Taylor and others (Santiago: Editorial Asterión, 1992) and in Marjorie Agosín, ed. What Is Secret: Stories By Chilean Women (Freedonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1995).
SELECTED LECTURES AND READINGS:
“Borderzone as Camp: Literature and Violence in Bolaño’s 2666,” delivered at International American Studies Asoociation 5th World Conference, Rio de Janeiro (Niterói) Brazil, July 2011.
“Marketing Discontent (Part 1): Popular Culture” and “Marketing Discontent (Part 2): Monuments and Memorials,” delivered at Latin American Studies Association, XXVIII International Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2009.
“Queering the Search: Memory, Desire, and Decentered Truths in Caio Fernando Abreu’s Onde andará Dulce Veiga? (1990),” delivered at Latin American Studies Association, XXVII International Congress, Montréal, Canada, September 2007.
“Recent Chilean Literature,” dialogue with Leonard Schwartz on the radio show “Cross-cultural Poetics,” KAOS-89.3FM, October 2006 (http://writing.upenn.edu/ pennsound/x/XCP.html). Listen to the interview from the home page to this website.
“(Re)Inscribing Memory within the Chilean Post-Dictatorship Landscape,” delivered at the Latin American Studies Association, XXVI International Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2006.
“Pedagogy and Culture in Latin(o) American Studies,” workshop at the Latin American Studies Association, XXV International Congress, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2004.
Reading from Political Bodies, “New Books by Evergreen Faculty,” Elliott Bay Bookstore, Seattle, WA, January 2003.
“Discontinuities, Fragments, Dirty Memories: Malú Urriola and the Chilean Post-Dictatorship,” delivered at the Latin American Studies Association, XXIII International Congress, Washington, D.C., September 2001.
“Memory and Cultural Resistance: Writing the Chilean Post-Dictatorship,” delivered at the Latin American Studies Association, XXII International Congress, Miami, Florida, April 2000.
“‘La niña sudaca irá a la venta’: Incest and the Neoliberal Social Body in Diamela Eltit’s El cuarto mundo (1989)” delivered at the Latin American Studies Association, XXI International Congress, Chicago, Illinois, September 1998.
“To Flee From History: Isabel Allende’s Bodiless Spirits and the Neoliberal Marketplace,” delivered at the Latin American Studies Association, XIX International Congress, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997.