About Dianna Niebylski

Professor Niebylski is currently researching the impact of globalization on contemporary Latin American fiction and film, focusing primarily on writers and filmmakers from the Southern Cone, Mexico, Brazil, and the US-Mexico border. Part of this project involves an examination of the ways in which new global economic and political configurations have changed and continue to change how Latin American writers and filmmakers experience and represent the massive problems of poverty, urban violence and migrant populations. Other considerations related to this project focus on the changing values and conception of bodies --as expendable, mobile, de-naturalized or largely in transit; and some of the ways in which the global scenario is redefining issues of translation within and across national borders.

Her most recent articles address works written in the past two decades, including new narratives and plays by Sergio Chejfec, Diamela Eltit, Sabina Berman, Tomás Eloy Martínez and César Aira. Her books include Humoring Resistance: Laughter, Bodies and Excess in latin American Women's Fictions (SUNY, 2004), and an annotated, classroom-edition of Rosario Ferré: Maldito amor y otros cuentos (2006), and The Poem on The Edge of the Word: The Limits of Language and the Uses of Silence in Mallarmé, Rilke and Vallejo (1999). She serves on the editorial board of several journals, including the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. She is book editor of Letras Femeninas, the journal of the Asociación Internacional Femenina de Literatura Hispánica.