Verónica Garibotto is an assistant professor of Latin American literary and cultural studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas, USA. She has an MA and a PhD in Hispanic languages and literatures from the University of Pittsburgh and a “licenciatura en Letras” with a specialization in literary theory from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. ... Read moreHer research addresses the links among culture, history, and politics in nineteenth to twenty-first-century Latin America, especially in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Her articles on the relations among “crisis,” “ideology,” and “historicity” in Southern Cone literature, theater, and film have appeared in academic journals such as Revista Iberoamericana, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, Chasqui, and A contracorriente. She is currently working on a second book manuscript that aims at reformulating the dominant theoretical frameworks for interpreting contemporary testimonial cinema and literature. Show Less