Publications

Selected Publications and Forthcoming Work:

Beyond the Uncanny: Unorthodox Homes as Political Possibilities in Pablo Trapero's Cinema. In preparation. 

Hogar, política y sexualidad en el cine hispano. Edited by Jorge González del Pozo and Inela Selimović. In preparation.

The Feeling Child: Affect and Politics in Latin American Literature and Film, edited by Philippa Page, Inela Selimović, and Camilla Sutherland. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018.

Affective Moments in the Films of Martel, Carri, and Puenzo. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Peer-Reviewed Articles: 

"Law and Disorder: Love, Drugs, and Broken Bones in Pablo Trapero’s Carancho (2010):" in preparation.

"Unorthodox Homes in Pablo Trapero's Leonera (2008) and El clan (2015): Shattered Lives, Political Selves." Chasqui 48. 1 (2019): forthcoming.

"Gastón Biraben’s Cautiva: An Instance of Enduring Grief.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 93.4 (2016): 421-438.

“The Social Spaces in Mutation: Sex, Violence, and Autism in Albertina Carri’s La rabia (2008).” Journal  of Latin American Cultural Studies 24. 4 (2015): 517-533.

“Mapping Urban Sites of Resistance in Diamela Eltit’s Los vigilantes.” Confluencia 25. 2 (Spring 2010):  122-130.

“Sexing of the City: Desire, Memory, and Trauma in Luisa Valenzuela’s La travesía.” Revista Hispánica  Moderna 60. 2 (December 2007): 205-219.

Book Chapters:

"Afectos maquiavélicos y revigorizaciones políticas en El estudiante (2011) de Santiago Mitre." Entre/telones y pantallas. Saberes y afectos en la performance argentina contemporánea, edited by Jordana Blejmar, Philippa Page, and Cecilia Sosa. Buenos Aires: Libraria, forthcoming.

“Coached Feelings and Political Resocializations in Paula Markovitch’s El premio (2011).” The Feeling Child: Affect and Politics in Latin American Literature and Film, edited by Philippa Page, Inela Selimović, and Camilla Sutherland. Lanham: Lexington Books, forthcoming.

“Sensorial Youths: Gender, Eroticism, and Agency in Lucrecia Martel’s Rey muerto (1995).” New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema, edited by Geoffrey Maguire and Rachel Randall. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 81-98

“Seeing Voices: Srebrenica’s Filaments of Memory.” Stitching Resistance, edited by Marjorie Agosín. Tunbridge Wells: Solis Press, 2014, pp. 74-86. 

“Hope and Survival: Poetry as the Affirmation of Life.” Writing, Witnessing, Becoming: Human Rights in Marjorie Agosín’s Poetry, edited by Valerijan Žujo and translated by Inela Selimović. Sarajevo: Sarajevo National Library University Press, 2011, pp. 5-21.

Reviews:

Latin American Cinema and Literature

Review of Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego by Mariana Enríquez. Chasqui 46. 2 (2018): here

Review of Las islas blancas by Marjorie Agosín Chasqui 46. 2 (2017): here.

Review of El clan by dir. Pablo Trapero. Chasqui 46. 1 (2017): here

Review of Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema, ed. Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 38. 3 (2014): 625-628.

Review of Tres por cinco by Luisa Valenzuela. Letras Femeninas 35. 2 (2009): 90-91.

Review of VITA: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment by João Biehl. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 9 (2005): 299-301.

Review of Figuraciones: mujeres en Carmen Martín Gaite, revistas feministas ¡Hola! by Rolón Lissette Collazo. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 7 (2003): 302-03.

Human Rights and Cultural Memory

Review of Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak by Selma Leydesdorff. Human Rights Quarterly 38. 2 (2016): 534-536.

Review of Asylum and Exile by Bidisha. Human Rights Quarterly 38. 1 (2016): 230-232.

Review of That Someone Guilty Be Punished: The Impact of the ICTY in Bosnia by Diane Orentlicher. Human Rights Quarterly 33. 3 (2011): 890-93.

Other: 

“Cities in Lucía Puenzo’s Films.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Edited by Jeremy Tambling. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018: here.

“Srebrenica and Rwanda, Twenty Years Later: Poetry as Renewal in Marjorie Agosín’s Madre, háblanos de la guerra.” World Literature Today 88. 3 (May-August, 2014). 

“The In-betwixt Self: Ariel Dorfman’s Feeding on Dreams.” Human Rights Quarterly 34. 2 (2012): 570-78.

“A Note from Bosnia and Herzegovina: Leading a Displaced Life.” Human Rights Quarterly 33. 2 (2011): 397-201.