Alicia del Campo is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Romance, German, and Russian Languages and Literatures Dept. at California State University, Long Beach, where she teaches Latin American literature and cinema. She is assistant director of the Latin American Studies Program and is co-director of the Latin American Film Series at CSULB. She received her MA in Anthropology from the University of Chile and completed her PhD at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Teatralidades de la Memoria: Rituales de Reconciliación en el Chile de la transición and is the editor of several volumes on theatre, and dance: Teatro en danza, (Cádiz, 2008), Isidora Aguirre: Antología esencial, (Santiago, 2007); Traviesas de Paz y Campos de batalla, (Cádiz: 2004) y Discursos Teatrales en los albores del siglo XXI (Irvine, 2001). She is a coordinating editor of Latin American Perspectives for which she is currently completing a special volume on Memory and Popular Culture which is co-edited with Arturo Arias. She has published numerous journal articles on Latin American theater, social theatricalities, and cultural studies in Chile, Brazil, Spain, Germany and the US.
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