Margarita SaonaMargarita Saona studied linguistics and literature at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. She received a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Columbia University in New York. She is head of the department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at te University of Illinois. She is interested in issues of gender, memory, cognition, empathy, and representation in literature and the arts. She has published numerous articles, the books on literary and cultural criticism, Novelas familiares: Figuraciones de la nación en la novela latinoamericana contemporánea (Rosario, 2004) and Memory Matters in Transitional Perú (Londres, 2014), two books of short fiction, Comehoras (Lima, 2008) and Objeto perdido (Lima, 2012), and a book of poems, Corazón de hojalata/Tin Heart (Chicago, 2017). Her latest publications are Despadre: Masculinidades, travestismos y ficciones de la ley en la literatura peruana (Editorial Gafas Moradas, 2022), which deals on the representation of masculinity in Peruvian literature, and La ciudad en que no estas (Cocodrilo Ediciones, 2021) a collection of her short stories that has also been published in English as The Ghost of You (tr. Luciana Erregue, Laberinto Press, 2023.) (University of Illinois at Chicago). Read More Read Less