Brenda Werth

Associate Professor
Department of Language and Foreign Studies

• Professor Werth specializes in contemporary Latin American Theatre and Southern Cone Studies. Her areas of interest include performance, memory studies, documentary theatre, and film. Her book Theatre, Performance, and Memory Politics in Argentina examines the intersection of theatre, memory, and human rights discourse in postdictatorial Argentina (Palgrave, 2010). Her future project, Global Imaginings of the City in Twenty-first Century Performance, focuses on the work of playwrights and artists in the Americas who incorporate the city as a protagonist in their creative processes to engage issues of social justice inherent to urban life. Professor Werth teaches special topics courses on diverse aspects of the Southern Cone, including Postdictatorial literature, performance, and human rights.

• Degrees

  PhD, Rutgers University
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