Jordana Blejmar is Lecturer in Visual Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Liverpool. Originally a Literature graduate from the University of Buenos Aires, she was awarded her PhD at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Playful Memories: The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and the co-editor of Instantáneas de la memoria: Fotografía y dictadura en Argentina y América Latina (with N. Fortuny and L. García, 2013), El pasado inasequible: desaparecidos, hijos y combatientes en el arte y la literatura del nuevo milenio (with M.E. Perez and S. Mandolessi, 2018) and Entre/telones y pantallas: afectos y saberes en la performance argentina contemporánea (with C. Sosa and P. Page, 2021). In 2019 she co-curated with N. Fortuny the installation Tearing Up the Past at Tate Liverpool. She is an Assistant Editor of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and the Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project “Cold War Toys: Material Cultures of Childhood in Argentina” (2022-2024). 

 

Publications (Selection)

 

BOOKS
2017 J. Blejmar, Playful Memories: The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)

2021 J. Blejmar, C. Sosa and P. Page, eds, Entre/telones y pantallas. Afectos y saberes en la performance argentina contemporánea (Buenos Aires: Libraria)

 

2018 J. Blejmar, M.E Perez, and S. Mandolessi, eds, El pasado inasequible: desaparecidos, hijos y combatientes en el arte y la literatura del nuevo milenio (Buenos Aires: Eudeba)

2013 J. Blejmar, N. Fortuny and L. García, eds, Instantáneas de la memoria: Fotografía y dictadura en Argentina y América Latina (Buenos Aires: Libraria)

 

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

2021. J. Blejmar, ‘Latin American Feminisms: A Land of Political Experimentation’, Critical Times, Duke University Press.

2017 J. Blejmar and C. Sosa, eds, ‘Special Issue: Theatre on Screen, Cinema on Stage: Cross-Genre Imaginaries in Contemporary Argentina’, Journal of Latin American Theatre Review, 50:2

 

2016 J. Blejmar and B. Bollig, eds, ‘Special Issue: Argentine Poetry Today: New Writing, New Readings’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 93:6

 

2013 J. Blejmar and N. Fortuny, eds, ‘Special Issue: Revisiting Postmemory: The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in Post-dictatorship Latin American Culture’, Journal of Romance Studies, 13: 3

 

ARTICLES

2021. J. Blejmar, ‘La corteza de la historia en las fotografías espectrales de Paula Luttringer’, ATLAS, https://atlasiv.com/2021/06/21/la-corteza-de-la-historia-en-las-imagenes-espectrales-de-paula-luttringer/

2019 J. Blejmar, ‘Specters and Spectacles of Disappearance: The Figure of the Doll in Argentina’s Memoryscapes’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 3:1, 127-148.

 

2017 J. Blejmar, ‘Autofictions of the Postwar: Fostering Empathy in Lola Arias’ Minefield/Campo minado,’ Latin American Theatre Review, 50: 2, 103-123.

 

2013 J. Blejmar, ‘Toying with History: Playful Memory in Albertina Carri’s Los rubios’, Journal of Romance Studies, 13, 44-61.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

2020 J. Blejmar. ‘Politics and Performance in Latin America.’ In Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic and Michael Saward, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 577-594

 

2018 J. Blejmar, ‘Intimate Cityscapes: Lola Arias’ Installations and Site-Specific Art’. In Graham-Jones, Jean, ed. Lola Arias: Reenacting Life (London: Performance Research Books), pp. 156-163.

 

2015 J. Blejmar, ‘Jouer sous la dictadure. Jouets et terreur d’État en Argentine’. In P. Bernard-Nouraud et L. Jurgenson, dir., Témoigner Par L’Image (Paris: Éditions Pétra), pp.125-146.