Margarita Saona, PhD
Professor
Hispanic and Italian Studies
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
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| 05:00pm – 07:30pm | SPAN 594 | |
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About
Margarita Saona is interested in issues of memory, cognition, empathy, and representation in literature and the arts. Her scholarly publications include Novelas familiares: Figuraciones de la nación en la novela latinoamericana contemporánea (2004), Memory Matters in Transitional Perú (2014), and Despadre: masculinidades, travestismos y ficciones de la ley en la literatura peruana (2021). She has also published several books of short fiction and the poetry collection Corazón de hojalata/Tin Heart (2017), which received the Luces award for the best Peruvian poetry collection of the year. Her latest publication is an essay on medical interventions entitled De monstruos y cyborgs (2023) and she is working on a multi-genre memoir on the experience of heart transplantation. She has been recognized twice by the Council of Excellence in Teaching and Learning and received the 2022 Amauta Tumi Award for outstanding teachers granted by the Peruvian community in the U.S. She has been a fellow of the UIC Institute for the Humanities on three occasions. She is also one of the fellows of The Patient Revolution, an initiative by Dr. Victor Montori from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to seek ways to transform medical care systems.
Selected Publications
Books
Despadre: La masculinidades, travestismo y ficciones de la ley en la literatura peruana. Editorial Gafas Moradas. Forthcoming.
Memory Matters in Transitional Peru. Memory Studies Series, Palgrave MacMillan: London, 2014.
Novelas Familiares: Figuraciones de la nación en la novela latinoamericana contemporánea. Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2004.
Articles
“Distancias irreconciliables: La herencia del conflicto armado interno en el Perú”. HIOL. 2023, 30 (179-201). https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/253508/HIOL_11.pdf?sequence=1
“The Transport-Station of an Organ Transplant.” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 2022, 27 (546-564). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41282-022-00325-w
“Otros conflictos internos en escena: San Bartolo y el teatro testimonial del abuso sexual en el Perú”. En Partera de la historia: Violencia en literatura, performance y medios audiovisuales en Latinoamérica. (pp. 175- 190). Editora Nómada / UAM, 2022 https://indigo.uic.edu/articles/chapter/Otros_conflictos_internos_en_escena_San_Bartolo_y_el_teatro_testimonial_del_abuso_sexual_en_el_Per_/21402876
“Social networks, Storytelling, and the “Ni una menos” March in Peru.” Hispanófila, vol. 192, 2021, p. 61-73. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/hsf.2021.0032. https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.cc.uic.edu/pub/210/article/848670
“Touching the Trace of the Real: Haptic and Metonymic Images of Exhumed Objects in the Construction of Collective Memory.“ Les Cahiers Sirice. Special issue: Material traces of mass death: the exhumed object. (2017) https://www.cairn-int.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=E_LCSI_019_0123
Fiction
The Ghost of You. Laberinto Press, 2023. https://utpdistribution.com/9781777085926/the-ghost-of-you/
Non-Fiction
De monstruos y cyborgs. Intermezzo tropical, 2023. http://intermezzotropical1.blogspot.com/2023/05/de-monstruos-y-cyborgs-de-margarita.html
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Service to Community
- Assistant in Self-Defense programs with Thousand Waves, Martial Arts and Self-Defense NFP
- Poetry readings by Poesía en Abril
Notable Honors
1999-2000, 2006-2007, & 2022-2023, Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Humanities
2017, Luces award for best book of poetry in Peru, El Comercio newspaper
2004 and 2011, Teaching recognition by the Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, UIC Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Education
Columbia University, Ph.D.
Columbia University, M.Phil.
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Licenciatura
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, B.A.
Selected Presentations
- The round table perspective: Collective memory with Margarita Saona
- Healing/Art Workshop, Feb 11 2021
- Book launch of La ciudad en que no estás: presentación del libro
- UIC Institute for the Humanities Fellow's Lecture, September 2023 https://youtu.be/Uiai3h81ZkU
- Discusión de Despadre en Crónicas de la Diversidad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmS0oweTNNc
- Presentación del libro Despadre https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=search&v=1096201124510386
- Presentación de De monstruos y cyborgs https://www.facebook.com/margarita.saona/videos/796427541733732