CURRICULUM VITAE (updated 25 June 2015) Rebecca J. Atencio Associate Professor Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University 302 Newcomb Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118 (704) 941-0293 ratencio@tulane.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. 2006 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Portuguese M.A. 2003 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Portuguese B.A. 2000 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Latin American Studies Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2014-present Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2009-2014 Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2006-2009 University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Culture Studies 2003-2005 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Teaching Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese PUBLICATIONS Book (peer-reviewed) 1. Memory s Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. Critical Human Rights Series. ISBN 978-0-299-29724-4 (Paper) 978-0-299-29723-7 (ebook). * Winner of the Alfred B. Thomas Award, 2014.
2 Reviewed in: Hispania, Choice, O palco e o mundo (blog) Articles and chapters (peer-reviewed) 1. Reconciliation or Resistance? Fernando Gabeira s O que é isso, companheiro? and the Amnesty Law. Accepted for publication in Luso-Brazilian Review 51.1 (Fall 2014). 2. Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil: The Double-Edged Role of Culture. Coauthored with Nina Schneider (historian, University of Konstanz, Germany). Accepted for publication in Latin American Perspectives. 3. Acts of Witnessing: Site-Specific Performance and Transitional Justice in Postdictatorship Brazil. Latin American Theatre Review. 46.2 (2013): 7-24. 4. A Prime Time to Remember: Memory Merchandising in Globo s Anos Rebeldes. In Accounting for Violence: Marketing Memory in Latin America, edited by Ksenija Bilbija and Leigh A. Payne. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. 41-68. * This essay (and the entire edited volume) underwent peer review. **Winner of the 2011 Sturgis Leavitt Prize for Best Article. 5. Remembering the Traumatic Past in Postdictatorial Argentina: The Photo Album as Metaphor in Ana María Shua s El libro de los recuerdos. Hispanic Journal 28.2 (2007): 109-120. 6. Camilo s (M)Other Women: Two Matricidal Narratives. Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 12 (2007): 95-106. 7. Dangerous Minds: Brazil s Escritura da exclusão and Testimonio. Hispania 89.2 (2006): 278-288. Commissioned articles 1. O momento da memória: A produção artístico-cultural e a justiça de transição no Brasil. Revista Anistia. Vol. 10 (forthcoming). Other articles (non-peer reviewed) 1. Art and Transitional Justice. Co-authored with Nancy Gates-Madsen. Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice. Vol. I. Eds. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. 117-123. * Encylopedia entry 2. Uma leitura pós-colonial de António Aurélio Goncalves: O potencial subversivo da imitação em Pródiga e Virgens loucas. Quadrant 24 (2007): 199-209.
3 * Article Guest editorships of special journal issues Co-guest editor with Nina Schneider and Ann Schneider, Bulletin of Latin American Research (UK), special issue on Memories and Legacies of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship: New Perspectives. Projected publication date summer 2015. Invited Lectures Researching Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges, Resources, and Strategies, invited leader/creator of faculty workshop at University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 24 February 2015. Official and Other Truths: Memories of Dictatorship in the Wake of Brazil s Truth Commissions, invited lecture at University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 23 February 2015. Transitional Justice in Brazil, one of three invited speakers for a symposium on transitional justice, UIUC, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 4 December 2014. WITHDREW in protest of UIUC s overturning of Steven Salaita s faculty appointment. O momento da memória: A produção artístico-cultural e a justiça de transição no Brasil, invited keynote presentation at the III Encontro de Direitos Culturais, Fortaleza, Brazil, 7-11 October 2014. Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Military Coup in Brazil, invited for presentation at the Marks of Memory symposium sponsored by the Brazilian Amnesty Commission and New York University s Hemispheric Institute, New York City, 8 April 2014. Memory s Turn: Culture and Transitional Justice in Brazil, invited for presentation at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN, 1 May 2014. Projections of the Past: Making the Invisible Visible in Tata Amaral s Hoje, invited for presentation at the 50 anos do golpe symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 8 April 2014. O momento da memória: A produção artístico-cultural e a justiça de transição no Brasil, invited by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice for Presentation at the IDEJUST Conference Commemorating the 50 th Anniversary of the Military Coup, Recife, 10 March 2014. Projections of the Past: Making the Invisible Visible in Tata Amaral s Hoje, invited for presentation at the University of New Mexico, NM, 7 February 2014. Memory s Turn: Culture and Transitional Justice in Brazil, invited for presentation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 25 October 2013.
4 Memory s Turn: Culture and Transitional Justice in Brazil, invited for presentation at Brown University, Providence, RI, 9 October 2013. Cultural Cycles of Human Rights Memory in Brazil, presented at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 7 March 2013. Made to be Remembered: Can Telenovelas Promote Transitional Justice in Brazil?, presented at the War and Memory Symposium sponsored by the University of Oregon Law School, Eugene, OR, 20 October 2012. A Prime Time to Remember: Globo and the Marketing of Memory in Post-Dictatorship Brazil, presented at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 10 March 2011. João Gilberto Noll s Short Story Collection A máquina de ser: A Postmodern Urban Epic?, presented at the Symposium on João Gilberto Noll, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 22 October 2010. Nunca Mais: Memories of Human Rights Abuses and the Military Dictatorship in Brazilian Political Testimonials, presented at the Vanderbilt Symposium on Human Rights in Brazil, Nashville, TN, 26 February 2010. Papers read Allegories of Impunity: Memories of the Military Dictatorship and the Question of Justice in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction, presented at the Ninth International Congress of the American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA), Albuquerque, NM, 23-25 October, 2014. Transnational Traumas: The Holocaust in Postdictatorial Brazilian Fiction, presented at the XII International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), London, 19-23 August, 2014. Culture and Transitional Justice in Brazil, presented at the XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, 21-24 May, 2014. Neither Truth nor Justice: Brazil s Transitional Justice Novels, presented at the 129 th Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), Chicago, January 9-12, 2014. Literary Fiction and the Art of Witnessing Dictatorship and Transitional Justice in Brazil, presented at the XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington, D.C., May 29-June 1, 2013. Legacies of Dictatorship in the Fiction of Luis Fernando Veríssimo, presented at the XI International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), Urbana-Champaign, IL, 6-8 September 2012.
5 Discussant, Legacies of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship and the Creation of Contemporary Political Culture, at the XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, 23-26 May 2012. Round Table presentation, at the XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, 23-26 May 2012. Transitional Justice and Cultural Production: The Brazilian Case, presented at the Historical Justice and Memory International Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 14-17 February 2012. Commemorating the Twentieth Anniversary of the Amnesty Law: Performances and Counterperformances in São Paulo, presented at the X International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), Brasília, Brazil, 22-24 July 2010. Performances of Memory: The Commemoration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Amnesty Law in São Paulo, presented at the Seventh International Congress of the American Portuguese Studies Association, Providence, 7-9 October, 2010. A Prime Time to Remember: Memory Merchandising in Globo s Anos Rebeldes, presented at the XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11-14 June 2009. Unsitely Memory: The Case of Recife s Monumento Tortura Nunca Mais, presented at the IX Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), New Orleans, LA, 27-29 March 2008. Mourning after Political Violence: Brazilian Stories of Gender, Sexuality, and Grief, presented at the XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montréal, Canada, 5-8 September 2007. The Limits of Witnessing: The Performance of Violence and the Role of the Spectator in Lembrar é resistir, presented at the Conference on Performing Brazil, Madison, WI, 20-21 April 2007. Mourning and Masculinity in Renato Tapajós Em câmara lenta, presented at the VIII International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), Nashville, TN, 13-16 October 2006. Conference Panel and Workshop Organization Symposium Co-Organizer, with Fernando Rivera, The Arts of Truth-Telling: The Peruvian and Brazilian Truth Commissions in Comparative Perspective, Tulane University, 19-20 March 2015. Panel Co-Organizer, with Jennifer Ashley, A Prime Time for Change: Telenovelas and Social Justice, to be submitted to the XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, 21-24 May 2014.
6 Panel Co-Organizer, with Nina Schneider and Ann Schneider, Memory, Truth, and Justice in Brazil: The National Truth Commission and Beyond, to be submitted to the XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, 21-24 May 2014. Panel Co-Organizer, with Nina Schneider, Transitional Justice in Post-Authoritarian Brazil: The Truth Commission A Turning Point?, at the XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington, D.C., 29 May-1 June 2013. Panel Organizer, Theatre, Performance, and Political Activism in Brazil, at the X International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), Brasília, Brazil, 22-24 July 2010. Panel Organizer, Brazilian and Brazilian-American Theatre, at the Seventh International Congress of the American Portuguese Studies Association, Providence, 7-9 October 2010. Workshop Organizer, Marketing Memory I (Popular Culture), at the XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, 11-14 June 2009. Book reviews (not peer-reviewed) 1. Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro by Bruno Carvalho. In process at the invitation of Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 2. Brazilian Propaganda: Legitimizing and Authoritarian Regime by Nina Schneider. In process at the invitation of Hispanic American Historical Review. 3. The Security Archipelago: Human Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism by Paul Amar. Forthcoming in International Feminist Journal of Politics. 4. Brazilian Women Filmmakers: From Dictatorship to Democracy by Leslie L. Marsh. Bulletin of Spanish Studies 92.2 (2015): 312-313. 5. K by Bernardo Kucinski. World Literature Quarterly. November-December 88.6 (2014): 58-59. 6. Brazil in the Making: Facets of National Identity, edited by Carmen Nava and Ludwig Lauerhauss, Jr. Hispania 90.3 (2007): 510-511. 7. Brazilian Narrative Traditions in a Comparative Context by Earl E. Fitz. Luso-Brazilian Review 42.2 (2005): 186-187. Media interviews granted Cultura no pós ditadura brasileira em livro de Rebecca Atencio. 6 May 2014. Conexões (Blog of Itaú Cultural, a private foundation created to foster Brazilian artistic and cultural production).
7 BBC 5Live Radio. Interviewed about Brazil s National Truth Commission and the release of its final report. Up All Night (with Andrew Fletcher). 10 December 2014. RESEARCH SUPPORT Non-University Sources National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2014. Not funded. American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2013 and 2014. Not funded. Ryskamp Fellowship, 2013. Not funded. Legacies of the African Diaspora in Brazil and the United States: Persistent Inequalities, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education Grant, US-Brazil Higher Education Consortium Program, Co-writer with Principal Investigator Jerry Dávila (UNC-Charlotte) and Robert Anderson (Winston-Salem State University), awarded to UNC-Charlotte and Winston- Salem State University, 2009. $249,896 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2008. Not funded. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2008. Not funded. Ford-LASA Special Projects Grant, 2008. Not funded. Summer Research Fellow, Carolina-Duke Consortium for Latin American Studies, 2007. $1,000 University Sources Monroe Fellowship, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, 2014. $1,500. Lurcy Grant, School of Liberal Arts, 2014. $3,600. Duren Professorship (Teaching Release and Supplementary Funds for Innovative Course Development), Newcomb-Tulane College, 2013-2014. $6,000 Summer Research Grant, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 2012, 2014. $3,000 Research Grant, Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University, 2012. $1,500. Tenure-Track International Travel Grant, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2011. $930 COR Faculty International Travel Grant, Provost, Tulane University, 2011. $800
8 CELT Grant for Faculty-Student Scholarly and Artistic Engagement, Tulane University 2011 ($1,990), 2012 ($1,000), 2013 ($1,070), 2014 ($1,500). Glick Fellowship, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2011. $5,000 Conference Travel Grant, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, 2010 and 2012-2014. Several. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Small Grant, UNC-Charlotte, 2009. $1,000. Faculty Research Grant, UNC-Charlotte, 2007 and 2009. $6,000 and $6,000. AWARDS AND PRIZES 2015 Alfred B. Thomas Prize, awarded by the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies for best book in Latin American Studies published in 2014 (awarded at March 2015 SECOLAS meeting) 2013 Sturgis Leavitt Prize, awarded by the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies for best book in Latin American Studies published in 2012 (awarded at March 2013 SECOLAS meeting) $250. SERVICE Service to the School of Liberal Arts Elected one-semester replacement for Undergraduate Requirements Committee, Spring 2015. Examiner, Graduate Reading Exam in Portuguese, 2009-present. Certifier of Portuguese translations for SLA faculty and graduate student (multiple departments), 2010-present. Nominated (but not elected) for Nominations Committee, 2013. Service to the Department Director of the Portuguese Program (2009-present) Creation of Spanish and Portuguese Joint Major Revamp of basic language program in Portuguese Oversight of graduate teaching assistant and adjunct Portuguese instructors
9 Advising of all undergraduate Portuguese majors and Joint Spanish-Portuguese majors, as well as all Portuguese minors Completion of SACS documentation for Portuguese major and Joint Spanish- Portuguese major Curriculum development, including proposal of five new courses to the SLA curriculum committee: PORT 3040, PORT 3280, PORT 4120, PORT 4130, BRAZ 4130 Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee (2009-present) Member, Department Executive Committee (2009-2010, 2012-present) Member, Search Committee for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Early Modern and Golden Age Spanish Literature (2012-2013) Member, Search Committees for VAP (cancelled) and Lecturer in Portuguese, 2014-2015. Service to the University Member, Undergraduate Academic Requirements Committee (one-semester replacement), 2014 (elected) Chair, Stone Center Executive Committee (elected to committee and elected to chairship), 2014-2017. Member, Search Committee, Latin American Library Research and Instruction Librarian (2013- present) Member, Steering Committee, Altman Program in International Studies and Business (2013- present). Member, Undergraduate Grants Committee, Newcomb-Tulane College (2013-present). Nominee, SLA Nominating Committee (2013), Stone Center for Latin American Studies Executive Committee (2012, not elected) Member, Search Committee for Haitian Creole Position (2010) Member, Brazilian Studies Council, Tulane University (2009-present) Member, FLAS Summer Fellowship Committee, Stone Center for Latin American Studies (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013) Faculty Evaluator of Portuguese Language Proficiency, FLAS, Stone Center for Latin American Studies (2009-present)
10 Member, SACS Evaluation Panel, Stone Center for Latin American Studies (2009) Adminstrator, Graduate Reading Exam in Portuguese (2009-present) Consultant for the Portuguese Program, Title VI Grant-Writing, Stone Center for Latin American Studies (Grant Awarded), (2009) Service to the Profession Member of Editorial Board, Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Culturais (IBDCult) book series on Cultural Rights, Brazil (2015-present). Evaluator, Social Science and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant (Canada), 2015. Member, Editorial Board, LIMIAR book series on Contemporary Brazilian Literature, Brazil (2014-present). Member, SECOLAS Executive Committee, 2014-2017 (Elected) Member, BRASA Executive Committee, 2012-2016 (Elected) Program Committee and Literature Track Chair, 13 th International BRASA Congress (ongoing) Program Committee and Literature Track Co-Chair, 12 th International BRASA Congress, London, UK, 2014 Brazilian Studies Association Lifetime Contribution Award Committee, 2013 Brazil Initiation Scholarship Committee, 2013 Co-creator with Brigitte Cairus of BRASA publicity materials, 2013 Member, MLA Executive Committee on Lusophone Literatures and Cultures Outside Portugal and Brazil, 2012-1017 (Elected) Peer Reviewer (journals), International Journal of Transitional Justice (2014); Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2014; Latin American Research Review, 2013; Luso-Brazilian Review, 2012 and 2013; Critical Studies in Improvisation, 2010 Peer Reviewer (book manuscripts), Palgrave MacMillan, 2012 Consultant, Partnerships to Expand Scholarly Connections between the U.S., Portugal, and Lusophone Africa, Coucil of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), March 11 th, 2011, Washington, D.C. Co-organizer with Ana López, Mulheres da Retomada/Brazilian Women Filmmakers Conference, Tulane University, 2011. Member, Roberto Reis Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) Book Prize Committee, 2010
11 Member of Editorial Board, The Latin Americanist, 2008-present Service to the Community Presenter (with Monique Labat), K-12 Teacher Workshop on Carnival in Brazil (2010) TEACHING Courses Taught at Tulane University FALL 2015- SPRING 2016 SABBATICAL (post-tenure; full academic year) SPRING 2015 FALL 2014 SUMMER 2014 SPRING 2014 FALL 2013 SPRING 2013 FALL 2012 SPRING 2012 PORT 4130: Topics (Soccer in Brazilian Culture) PORT 3040: Advanced Grammar and Composition (Course developed: Advanced Grammar and Composition) PORT 6920: Special Topics PORT 3130: Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Literature (Course developed: Globalization and Brazilian Culture) Director, Tulane-Vanderbilt-Emory Summer Program in São Paulo, Brazil (June 20-August 1) PORT 6130: Brazilian Cultural Imaginaries (Course developed: Legacies of Dictatorship in Contemporary Brazil) PORT 4130: Topics in Brazilian Literature and Culture (Course developed: Brazil s Emerging Middle Class in Literary and Cultural Production) PORT 3130: Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Literature PORT 4120: Social Problems in Brazilian Literature and Culture PORT 4130: Topics in Brazilian Literature and Culture PORT 6920: Special Topics (Courses developed: Jogo Bonito: Soccer in Brazilian Culture Brazil in Transit(ion): Travel Narratives) PORT 3130: Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Literature PORT 3340: Brazilian Women Writers in English Translation SPAN 3070: Latin American Literature in English Translation PORT 4120: Social Problems in Brazilian Literature and Culture (Course developed: Transitional Justice in Brazilian Literature and
12 Cultural Production) FALL 2011 RESEARCH LEAVE (after third year review) SPRING 2011 FALL 2010 SPRING 2010 FALL 2009 PORT 3280: Advanced Portuguese through Brazilian Cinema PORT 3340: Brazilian Women Writers in English Translation (Courses developed: Brazilian Women Writers in English Translation) PORT 2030: Intensive Intermediate Portuguese SPAN 3070: Introduction to Latin American Literatures in Translation (Course developed: Introduction to Latin American Literatures in Translation) PORT 6910: Special Topics PORT 3280: Advanced Portuguese through Brazilian Cinema (Courses developed: Memories of Dictatorship in Brazilian Narrative and Film Advanced Portuguese through Brazilian Cinema) PORT 2030: Intensive Intermediate Portuguese PORT 6910: Special Topics (Course developed: Brazilian Theatre) Thesis and doctoral advising Ongoing Ongoing The Experience of Anonymity in Contemporary Argentine and Brazilian Literature and Film. Doctoral Dissertation by Adam Demaray. (Committee member). Slavery and Abolition in Nineteenth Century Brazilian Literature and Theatre. Doctoral Dissertation by Alex Castro. (Committee member). 2015 Intended and Perceived Meanings of Contemporary Brazilian Hip-Hop Amongst Different Audiences, Through the Works of Criolo. Honors thesis by Robert White (Thesis Director) 2015 The Poetics of Power: a Study of Spanish and Portuguese translations of Howl. Honors thesis by Olivia Price (Third reader) 2015 A New World: Center-Periphery Relations in the Cultural Consumption and Production of Funk Carioca. Master s Thesis by Hilary Johnson (Third reader). 2014 Cinderelas Negras: A Comparative Analysis of the Cultural Production, Representation, and Legacy of Clementina de Jesus and Carolina Maria de Jesus. Doctoral Dissertation by Elise Dietrich. (Committee member).
13 2014 Mega-Events and What They Mean for Brazil: Case Studies of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Honors Thesis by Robin Goode (Thesis Director) 2014 Transitional Justice in Latin America and Africa: A Comparative Perspective. Honors Thesis by Angela Lizardi (Thesis Director) 2013 Racial Quotas or Racist Quotas? Civil Society Responds to Affirmative Action in Brazil. Honors Thesis by Ailene Orr. (Committee Member). 2013 A Passing Foreign Landscape. Honors Thesis by Engram Wilkinson. (Committee Member). 2013 The Trance-Utterance and Postmodernity in Clarice Lispector and Marguerite Duras. Honors Thesis by Casey Boersma. (Committee Member). 2013 Campus Security and Sexual Assault of Female Students: A Case Study of Tulane University. Honors Thesis by Haley Marchant. (Committee Member). 2012 Inappropriate Interaction: How the Institutions and Individuals within Federal Regulation and Private Banking Contributed to the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis. Honors Thesis by Cara Fonseca. (Committee member). 2010 (Re)presenting the Periphery: Co-production and Self-Representation in Contemporary Brazilian Television and New Media. Masters Thesis (Latin American Studies Program) by Gwen Murray. (Committee member). COLLECTIVE SCHOLARLY PROJECTS Invited Researcher, Cultura e Violência, an international working group on culture and violence coordinated by Jaime Ginzburg, University of São Paulo, 2014. Invited Researcher, Crítica, Antagonismo e Catástrofe, an international working group on Brazilian literature coordinated by Jaime Ginzburg, University of São Paulo, 2013. Invited Researcher, Grupo de Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, an international working group on contemporary Brazilian literature coordinated by Regina Dalcastagnè, University of Brasília, 2012-present. Founder and coordinator, Transitional Justice in Brazil, a blog maintained by undergraduate and graduate Tulane students and devoted to following the latest developments in Brazilian memory politics for an English-speaking audience, funded by Tulane s Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning (CELT) and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, 2011-present (transitionaljusticeinbrazil.com).
14 Invited researcher, Marketing Memory Research Circle, an international working group on the intersection between memory politics and neoliberalism coordinated by Leigh A. Payne and Ksenija Bilbija, funded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008-2011. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Comparative Literature Association, 2014-present. Brazilian Studies Association, 2007-present Latin American Studies Association, 2007-present Southeast Council of Latin American Studies, 2006-present Modern Language Association, 2002-present American Portuguese Studies Association, 2002-present