Ana Ros,
Associate Professor
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
TRIP Courtesy Title
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Biography
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.
Publications
- Ros, Ana. The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Collective Memory and Cultural Production. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
- Ros Matturro, Ana. “Hijas de perpetradores: la desobediencia elegida vs. la obediencia debida”. Dossier: “Generación Hijes: memoria, posdictadura y posconflicto en América Latina”, coord. Ana Forcinito. Hispanic IssuesOnline (University of Minnesota), Vol. 30, (2023): 27-49.
- Ros Matturro, Ana. “El soldado que no fue: Interrogando el ejército, la obediencia debida y el Nunca Más”. Dossier: “La construcción social de la figura del perpetrador”, coord. Claudia Feld, Valentina Salvi. Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural (University of Valencia, Spain), Issue 15, (2020): 97-125.
- Ros, Ana. “El mocito: A Study of Cruelty at the Intersection of Chile’s Military and Civil Society.” Genocide Studies and Prevention. An International Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 2, (2018): 107-124.
- Ros, Ana. “Los otros con armas. Las complicadas relaciones cívico militares en el Chile de posdictadura”. A contracorriente. Revista de historia social y literatura de América Latina (North Carolina State University), Vol 14, Issue 2 (February 2017): 17-42
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