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 Erin Graff ZivinMA, University of California–Berkeley; PhD, New York University Room 1217C, Cathedral of Learning Erin Graff Zivin’s
research and teaching interests are structured around two principle thematic
and theoretical axes: representations of ‘Jewishness’ in the Luso-Hispanic
Atlantic, and the intersection of ethical philosophy and critical theory. She
is the author of The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of ‘Jewishness’ in the
Latin American Imaginary (forthcoming from Duke UP) and editor of The Ethics of Latin American Literary
Criticism: Reading Otherwise (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), and is currently
writing a book-length manuscript entitled Figurative
Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture and ‘Truth’ in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic,
which investigates representations of the Inquisition and conversion in 19th-
and 20th-century Peninsular and Latin American literature. Selected PublicationsThe Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of ‘Jewishness’ in
the Latin American Imaginary. The Ethics of
Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise (edited volume of essays by Idelber Avelar, Gabriela
Basterra, Bruno Bosteels, Sergio Chejfec, Esther Gabara, Francine Masiello, Alberto
Moreiras, Gabriel Riera and Doris Sommer). “Diagnósticos modernistas de Max Nordau: Darío,
Ingenieros y Silva leen al médico judío.” Estudios: Revista de
Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales ( “The Scene of the Transaction: Jewishness, Money and
Prostitution in the Brazilian Imaginary.” Invited contribution to Latin American
Jews or Jewish-Latin Americans?, ed. Raanan Rein and Jeffrey Lesser.
“Writing the
Absent Face: ‘Jewishness’ and the Limits of Representation in Borges, Piglia
and Chejfec.” MLN 122.2 (2007):
350-370. “Transacciones judías y discursos promiscuos en ‘Emma
Zunz.’” Variaciones Borges 22 (2006):
191-199. “Cuerpos errantes, sujetos patológicos en la obra de
Luisa Futoransky y Margo Glantz.” Invited contribution to Memoria y representación: Configuraciones culturales y literarias en el
imaginario judío latinoamericano, ed. Alejandro Meter and Ariana Huberman. “Conversiones textuales, inquisiciones
transatlánticas: La figura de la cristiana nueva en Dias Gomes y Antonio Gala.”
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 6.3 (2005): 259-269. “Reading Max Nordau: Unspeakable Difference in Spanish
American Modernism.” Chasqui; revista de
literatura latinoamericana 34.1 (2005): 102-113. “Sick Jews: Disease and Deformity in Luisa Futoransky’s De
Pe a Pa: De Pekín a París and Margo Glantz’s ‘Zapatos: Andante con
variaciones.’” Invited contribution to Luisa Futoransky y su palabra itinerante.
Ed. Ester Gimbernat González.
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