Silvia R. Tandeciarz holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University. She is Chancellor Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Vice Dean for Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies at William & Mary, where she has worked since 1999. A translator, poet, and scholar in the field of Latin American Cultural Studies, she has published widely on the intersections between memorial and human rights initiatives in postdictatorship Argentina. Her most recent book, Citizens of Memory: Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina (2017,Bucknell University Press) appeared in Spanish in 2020. In addition to the poems of Puerto Rican poet Juana Goergen, her work in translation includes the book-length critical treatises Masculine/Feminine (Duke University Press, 2004) and The Insubordination of Signs (Duke University Press, 2004), both by the Chilean theorist Nelly Richard. She is the author of the poetry collection Exorcismos (Betania, 2000).