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Ana L. Ros

Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title

Romance Languages and Literatures; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Background

Ana Ros received her PhD from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and, in 2008, joined the Department of Romance Languages at Binghamton University. Her research explores how the collective memory of the dictatorial past has been formed and transmitted in Latin America’s Southern Cone. In her current book project, she studies the transformation of civil-military relations in this region as part of the process of democratic consolidation. 

She is the author of the Post-dictatorial Generation: Collective Memory and Cultural Production in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012). Her articles have appeared in academic publications such as Journal of Genocide Studies, Genocide Studies and Prevention, and Hispanic Issues. She has also contributed to edited volumes on post-conflict literature and political documentaries in Latin America, published with Routledge and the Chilean press LOM. In 2022, she funded GIMUR, a group of female academics from different countries and disciplines who research the formation and transmission of collective memory in Uruguay.

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Education

  • Ph.D. Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2008
  • B.A. Literary Studies, College of Humanities and Education, University of Uruguay, Montevideo, 2000
  • B.A. Secondary Education Literature Teaching, Instituto de Profesores Artigas, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1999

Research Interests

  • Posdictatorial societies in Latin America
  • Construction and transmission of collective memory
  • Civil-military relations
  • Individual responsibility in oppressive systems
  • Obedience and resistance in authoritarian and democratic contexts

Teaching Interests

  • Contemporary Latin American cinema, literature, culture and history
  • Intersectionality of race, class and gender
  • Social conflict through children’s eyes
  • Collective memory of the Southern Cone dictatorships
  • Social and popular movements

Awards

  • College Finish Line Grant, Binghamton University (for advancing the second book project), 2022
  • Harpur Dean’s Conference Funds (for co-organizing symposium “The Military Industrial Complex in the Americas"), John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2020
  • Provost’s Individual Development Award, Binghamton University, 2024, 2015
  • Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2011, 2010

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