Claudia Salazar

BA, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. PhD, Advanced Certificate in Creative Writing in Spanish, New York University. Area of specialization: modern and contemporary Latin American literature, with a special focus on South America. Interests in literature and film; life writing; women, gender, and sexuality studies; crossings among memory, gender, and political violence; transatlantic studies; performance and visual culture. Creator and director of Perufest: Festival of New Peruvian Cinema. Articles, essays, and short stories published in several books and journals. Editor of the anthology, Voces para Lilith, Literatura contemporánea de temática lésbica en Sudamérica (Editorial Estruendomudo: Lima, 2011). SLC, 2011–