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Dr

Marivic Wyndham

Industry Fellow

Discipline of International Studies

BIO

Marivic Wyndham is a Senior Lecturer in the School of International Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She is In-Country Study Co-Ordinator for Chile and Argentina, and teaches and co-ordinates Human Rights in Hispanophone Societies (Spanish 7) and US/LatinAmerica Relations (Spanish 8).Her PhD (ANU) focused on an Australian literary icon of the inter-war years, Eleanor Dark, and from which emerged her book A World-Proof Life: Eleanor Dark, a writer in her times. More recent research has focused on issues of custodianship of place and the politics of memorialisation in the Latin America region, in particular Cuba and Chile. Several publications have emerged from this research, the most recent (co-authored with Professor Peter Read) being Narrow but Endessly Deep:the struggle for memorialisation in Chile since the transition to democracy (2016) and a revised Spanish translation Sin descansar en mi memoria: la lucha por la creacion de sitios de memoria en Chile desde la transicion a la democracia (2917). Her current research project focuses on children of the Cold War, in particular in Chile and Argentina.

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