Brix, Catherine M. “Finding a Space for Ethics in Southern Cone Post-dictatorship Literature.” Review of Ethics and Literature in Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay, 1970-2000: From the Singular to the Specific by Carlos M. Amador, Mujeres tras las rejas de Pinochet: testimonio de tres ex presas políticas de la Dictadura by Vivian Lavín Almazán, and Civil Obedience: Complicity and Complacency in Chile since Pinochet by Michael J. Lazzara. Chasqui, vol. 47, no. 2, Nov. 2018, pp. R19-R24.

             http://chasquirll.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Reviews-November2018.pdf

Brix, Catherine M. “Rethinking Conceptualizations of Identity of the Detained-Disappeared.” Review of Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay: Identity and Meaning by Gabriel Gatti. A Contracorriente, vol. 12, no. 2, 15 Jan. 2015, pp. 468-474.

             https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1387

Forthcoming publications:

• I submitted a journal article for peer-review by the journal Memory Studies, entitled "Medusa's Face: Trauma, Testimonio, and Resistance Writing in El Infierno"  to the journal Memory Studies

• I submitted a journal article entitled "Translating Testimonio: The Ethics of Translating Trauma Narratives" to the international journal Memory Studies" submitted to the journal Translation Studies.

• I submitted a journal article entitled "A Tale of Two Chiles: The Marriage of Authoritarianism and Neoliberal Economics" to the journal A Contracorriente.

Upcoming projects:

Research:

• I am working on a Community-Based Learning initiative through a STLI fellowship during 2022-2023. This will involve designing and implementing the initiative in my Spring 2023 courses, developing and distributing a survey, collecting and analyzing data (quantitative analysis), sharing findings at the STLI Symposium in Spring 2023, and the creation of a micro-course at the STLI Academy. Should the data support it, this could become a longitudinal study worthy of further analysis and publication in a pedagogy-focused journal.

Articles in progress:

• I am working on an article considering the "memeification" of the political discourses surrounding the 2019 protests in Chile and the 2020 referendum on a new constitution. This concerns the increasing digitization of political processes and campaign rhetoric/propaganda in a globalized world. This contrasts with the processes used in the 1988 plebiscite that ended the reign of Augusto Pinochet.

• I am working on an interview project with the Chilean author and journalist, Vivian Lavín Almazán, about the testimonial process in her book, Mujeres tras las rejas de Pinochet: testimonio de tres ex-presas políticas de la dictadura  [Women behind Pinochet's Bars: Testimonies of Three Ex-Political Prisoners of the Dictatorship] (2015), which I will publish as a peer-reviewed journal article in 2021.

Books:

• One of my major research projects is the transformation of my dissertation project into a published monograph, entitled Trauma and Testimonio: Memories of Hispanic Women Prisoners under Dictatorship. As an expansion on my dissertation topic that focused only on Chile, the book will also address the testimonial narratives of women political prisoners under the 20th century dictatorships in a number of  hispanophone countries, including Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, and Spain.

Translations:

• I am  in the process of completing the Spanish to English translation of Mujeres tras las rejas de Pinochet: testimonio de tres ex-presas políticas de la dictadura (2015) by Vivian Lavín Almazán. I plan to complete the translation in late 2021 for review and submission for publication with a U.S. academic press.

Future Research Themes:

Future research themes that I want to explore include my continued interest in political imprisonment, prison education, and transnational/cross-temporal analyses of testimonial literature. I am interested in investigating the rights of children as subjects under international law, and particularly these rights with respect to human rights abuses under the Southern Cone dictatorships. I am keen on studying how, and in what ways, these issues have been articulated by children in testimonial literature, or whether this sub-genre has been considered at all. I am fascinated by researching types of non-sanctioned testimonios such as the libros cartoneros that I have seen in Chile, and I want to investigate this medium's possible intersections with children's testimonios. In addition, I am broadly interested in researching how human rights are discussed in children's and young adults' literature, and whether there is a corpus within these genres that could serve as possible pedagogical tools for teaching ethics and peacebuilding practices to young readers and future educators.