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    Dr. Figueredo is Associate Professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University, where she teaches courses in Spanish and Spanish American literature. Her research focuses on the relationship of literature and music in Latin America, music as a subtext in women’s writing, and contemporary innovations in Spanish American literature. Professor Maria Figueredo was awarded the 2016 President’s University-wide Teaching Award.

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      Creation Sounds: Music, Gender and Performativity in Contemporary Latin American Literature. Champaign, IL: Common Ground Research Networks. doi:10.18848/978-1-61229-951-8/CGP.

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      Her first book, Poesía y canto popular: Su convergencia en el siglo XX. Uruguay, 1960-1985 (Linardi y Risso, 2005), studies the socio-cultural process of poetry that is set to music at particular times in the history of Latin America. She has also studied music as a subtext in women’s prose, and music in the 20th century Latin American novel. Her poetry has been published in Jones Av. V/2 and in a compact disc compilation, The Sound of Poetry (2005), and in the first trilingual anthology of Hispano-Canadians writers and artists, ANTARES 2009: Anthology of Hispanic-Canadian Literary and Artistic Creativity (2009).

      Selected Publications

      Figueredo, Maria L. Poesía y canto popular: Su convergencia en el siglo XX. Uruguay, 1960-1985. Poetry and Popular Song: Their Convergence in the Twentieth Century. The Case of Uruguay, 1960-1985. Montevideo: Linardi y Risso, 2005. Pp. 206. ISBN: 9974-559-58-8.

      “The Rhythm of Values: Poets and Musicians in Ekphrasis and the Case of Uruguay, 1960-85.” Chapter 6. In Pablo Vila, ed., The Militant Song Movement in Latin America: Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. New York: Lexington (RLPG), 2014. Pp. 282. 143-164.

      “Networked Poetries: Two Latin American Perspectives.” The International Journal of Communication and Media Studies (inaugural volume): New Media, Technology, and the Arts. Volume 1, Issue 1 (2016): 23-29. http://ijp.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.336/prod.6

      “El lugar de las cosas indecibles: El silencio en la estrategia novelística de Verónica Lecomte que desmorona el orden discursivo de la violencia.” [The Place of Unsayable Things: Silence in Veronica Lecomte’s Narrative Strategy of Deconstructing the Discursive Order of Violence] Itinerarios: Revista de estudios lingüísticos, literarios, históricos y antropológicos. [Itineraries. Journal of linguistic, literary, historical and anthropological studies] Warsaw: Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies. Vol. 18 (2014): 285-310.

      “The Legend of La Llorona: Excavating and (Re)-Interpreting the Archetype of the Creative/Fertile Feminine Force.” Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: Selected Readings. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. 232-243.

      “From Pablo Neruda to Luciana Souza: Latin America as Poetico-Musical Space.” Latin American Identity after 1980. An Interdisciplinary Volume. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010. 167-195.

      Upcoming Talks and Conferences

      “Melisa Machado (Uruguay), Lía Colombino (Paraguay) and Rocío Cerón (Mexico): Mobilizing the Body as Affective and Relational Resistance in Poetry and Music in the 21st Century.” Crossing Borders/Cruzando Fronteras. 26th Annual Conference of The International Association of Hispanic Feminine Literature and Culture / Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH). The University of Houston. 10-12 November 2016

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