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Brenda Werth

Associate Professor World Languages and Cultures

Additional Positions at AU

  • Director, MA Program in Spanish and Latin American Studies
Brenda Werth's research interests include Latin American theatre, performance, documentary film, memory studies, and translation. She is author of the book Theatre, Performance, and Memory Politics in Argentina (Palgrave 2010); co-editor (with Paola Hernández and Florian Becker) of Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theatre: Global Perspectives (Palgrave 2013); and co-editor (with May Summer Farnsworth and Camilla Stevens) of Escrito por mujeres (LATR Books, University of Kansas 2013). Her current research explores the politics of non-fiction in twenty-first-century Argentine documentary theatre and performance.

Degrees

PhD, Rutgers University

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Office
CAS-World Lang and Cultures
McCabe - 202
Contact Info
(202) 885-1449 (Office)
(202) 885-1076 (Fax)

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World Languages and Cultures

Teaching

  • Spring 2017

    • SPAN-705 Sem: Spanish & Latin Amer Stds: Human Rights & Latin Amer Lit
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  • Fall 2017

    • SPAN-456 Spanish Topics: Postdictatorial Southern Cone
    • Description

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

Professor Werth’s most recent research has focused on examining theater’s role in negotiating memory politics, human rights activism, changing notions of citizenship, and the articulation of youth culture in postdictatorial Argentina. She draws on memory, performance, and trauma studies to propose theater as an overlooked form of testimony and cultural strategy for coming to terms with the past. She is also interested in the intersections between performance and media and the staging of place in a globalized era.

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