- Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty
- Jianhua Bai
- Jean Blacker
- Mary Jane Cowles
- Simone Dubrovic
- Paul Gebhardt
- Mortimer Martin Guiney
- Robert Goodhand
- Daniel Hartnett
- Katherine Hedeen
- Travis Landry
- Linda Metzler
- Evelyn Moore
- Simona Moti
- Natalia L. Olshanskaya
- Charles Piano
- Patricia Lyn Richards
- Leo W. Riegert, Jr.
- Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez
- Clara Román-Odio
- Marta Sierra
- Chengjuan Sun
- Hideo Tomita
Marta Sierra
Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature

Contact Information
Ascension Hall 003
740-427-5409 voice
740-427-5276 fax
sierram@kenyon.edu
Marta 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. She is a specialist in Cono-Sur literature. Her research interests include 20th Century Spanish American essay, fiction and poetry; modernization processes in Latin America (from Modernismo to the Avant-garde); connections between media and literature; the role intellectuals play in Latin American societies; Women's writing in Latin America; urban literature and the representation of the city in fiction and poetry; Latin American film and exile and deterritorialization.
Prof. Sierra is currently working on a book entitled Virtual Territories: Gendered Spaces and the Quest for Place inWomen's Writing in Argentina, 1910 to the Present. Professor Sierra has been an active member of the Asociación Internacional de la Literatura Femenina Hispánica, an association devoted to the study of women's productions in Spain and Latin America, and she is currently serving as its treasurer. In addition, she has participated, along with Professor Clara Román-Odio and Laurie Finke (Women's and Gender Studies Program) in the organization of the GLCA Annual Conference: "Transnational Feminisms: De-Centering the Academic Debate on Global Feminisms" (Kenyon College, September 26-28, 2008). She is the faculty liaison for students interested in applying for Teaching Fulbright Fellowships. She is currently the Kenyon faculty involved in Kenyon Academic Partnership (Spanish).
Education
Ph.D. Rutgers University (2000)
Masters Rutgers University (1997)
B.A. University of Tucumán, Argentina (1992)
Selected Publications
Editions
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.
Book chapters
"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.
"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.
"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.
Articles (peer-reviewed publications)
"Geografías imposibles: La poesía 'en bajel' de Luisa Futoransky". Forthcoming, Confluencia, Fall 2008.
"Las tierras de la memoria: las estéticas sin territorio de Witold Gombrowicz y Felisberto Hernández". Hispanic Review, 74.1 (2006):59-82.
"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.
"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.
"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 literaturaargentina 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.
Book reviews and Interviews
"Tensiones en el campo cultural argentino: mercado identidad y memoria en la era neoliberal". Confluencia, Forthcoming, Fall 2008.
"Entrevista con María Negroni." Hispámerica, Forthcoming (109): Fall 2008.
"Luisa Futoransky: Seqüana Barrosa" (book review and interview with the author). Chasqui, Forthcoming: Fall 2008.
"Victoria Verlichak. Marta Traba. Una terquedad furibunda. Buenos Aires: Universidad Tres de Febrero-Fundación Proa, 2001". Letras Femeninas. Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica. XXX.1 (2004): 209-211.
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Ascension Hall
Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio 43022
740-427-5656



