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Professor Sierra joined Kenyon in 2004. She is a native of Tucumán, Argentina. She received her undergraduate degree from the National University of Argentina (Tucumán) in Spanish and Spanish American literature, and language pedagogy.
Prof. Sierra came to the U.S. in 1996 to pursue a Masters and a Doctorate degree in Spanish American literature at Rutgers University, which she completed in 2000. She is a specialist in Cono-Sur literature. Her research interests include 20th century Spanish American essay, fiction and poetry; modernity and gender in Latin America; the role of space and place in literary and cultural productions; women's writing; and the representation of the city in fiction and poetry.
In addition to publications in the field of transnational feminisms and the postcolonial experience in Latin America, she is the author of Gendered Spaces in Argentine Women's Literature (2012). She also edited Geografías Imaginarias: Espacios de Resistencia y crisis en América Latina…
Read MoreProfessor Sierra joined Kenyon in 2004. She is a native of Tucumán, Argentina. She received her undergraduate degree from the National University of Argentina (Tucumán) in Spanish and Spanish American literature, and language pedagogy.
Prof. Sierra came to the U.S. in 1996 to pursue a Masters and a Doctorate degree in Spanish American literature at Rutgers University, which she completed in 2000. She is a specialist in Cono-Sur literature. Her research interests include 20th century Spanish American essay, fiction and poetry; modernity and gender in Latin America; the role of space and place in literary and cultural productions; women's writing; and the representation of the city in fiction and poetry.
In addition to publications in the field of transnational feminisms and the postcolonial experience in Latin America, she is the author of Gendered Spaces in Argentine Women's Literature (2012). She also edited Geografías Imaginarias: Espacios de Resistencia y crisis en América Latina (2014), a compilation of essays that study the role of space in the humanities. She is currently working on two additional books. Escrituras extremas: anarco-feminismo en América Latina (forthcoming in 2016) is a history of women influenced by anarchism in Latin America. Maps of Wonders: Geographies of the Feminine is a study on the intersections between maps and the arts in the works of 6 women writers and artists from Latin America.
In addition to her academic work, Prof. Sierra is currently working on a historical novel taking place in Buenos Aires at the turn of the Twentieth Century. The tentative title is Las Ranas (The Frogs) and it narrates the life of woman anarchist during the 1900-1910 period.
Professor Sierra is currently the Chair of the MLL department.
2000 — Doctor of Philosophy from Rutgers University
1997 — Master of Arts from Rutgers University
1992 — Bachelor of Arts from National University of Tucuman
Global and Local Geographies: The (Dis)locations of Contemporary Feminisms. Marta Sierra, Clara Román-Odio, invited editors. Special Issue, Letras Femeninas, XXXIII (1) Summer 2007.
"En tránsito: geografías femeninas y viaje interoceánico en 45 días y 30 marineros de Norah Lange". Viajeras entre dos mundos. Sara Beatriz de la Guardia, editora. Lima, Perú: Centro de Estudios de la Mujer en América Latina. Forthcoming, Spring 2009.
"Geografías imposibles: La poesía 'en bajel' de Luisa Futoransky". Forthcoming, Confluencia, Fall 2008.
"Cuéntame un cuento chino: la estética sin territorio de Luisa Futoransky." Luisa Futoransky y su palabra itinerante. Ester Gimbernat González, editor. Uruguay: Ediciones de Hermes Criollo, 2007. 225-246.
"Los espacios de la crónica en La esquina es mi corazón de Pedro Lemebel." Tras las huellas de una escritura en tránsito: La crónica contemporánea en América Latina. Graciela Falbo, editor. La Plata, Argentina: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Editorial Al Márgen. Forthcoming, Fall 2007. 89-109.
"Las tierras de la memoria: las estéticas sin territorio de Witold Gombrowicz y Felisberto Hernández". Hispanic Review, 74.1 (2006):59-82.
"Oblique Views: Artistic Doubling, Ironic Mirroring and Photomontage in the Works of Norah Lange and Norah Borges." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 29.3 (2006): 563-584.
"De caníbales, piratas y polígrafas: escritura, obscenidad y mutilación en Alejandra Pizarnik." Latin American Literary Review, XXXIII.66 (2005):77-94.
"Mundo grúa: las paradojas del cuerpo y la máquina en la sociedad argentina de los años noventa." Argentina en su literatura, Vol VIII. Instituto Interdisciplinario de Literaturas Argentina y Comparadas. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, 2005. 351-368.
"Máquinas, ficciones y sociedades secretas: Caterva de Juan Filloy y La ciudad ausente de Ricardo Piglia". Revista Iberoamericana, 11 (2005): 521-537.
"Artista, recolección y nostalgia: la figura del artista en la literatura de vanguardia", Confluencia. Colorado: University of Northern Colorado, Volume 18 (Nº 2), Spring 2003.
"Las construcciones de género en la literatura argentina de vanguardia". Revista de estudios hispánicos, Washington University, Winter 2000.
"La pesadilla de lasimágenes: reproducciónmecánica en La invención de Morel". Acta Literaria 24, Universidad de Concepción, Chile, Fall 1999. 121-130.
"La ilustración española en el discurso de El telégrafo Mercantil." La Ilustración y Tucumán a comienzos del siglo XIX, Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica, Programa de investigación 206, Fac. De Filosofía y Letras, Tucumán, Argentina, 1992. pp.45-67.