Dr. William R. Benner

I received my Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from Tulane University. I am an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of the Spanish program at TWU.

My object of study is the recent artistic productions by post-dictatorship generations in Argentina and Chile. In "El documental sin fin: filmar al desaparecido" (2017), I examine a shared archive of images and sounds in two films by two post-dictatorship filmmakers in Argentina. Both Albertina Carri and Jonathan Perel debate the performative nature of documenting places of dictatorial terror. In "Blogging Disappearance in Diario de una princesa montonera by Mariana Eva Perez", I began my understanding of the digital archive and how it changes the relationship between author and writer. I have a book chapter that will be published in Jan. 2022 on memory politics in post-dictatorship Chilean cinema and I have an article under review about the Chilean Alejandro Zambra's depiction of digital archives in his recent texts. I am currently writing a book titled Entangled Archives: Locating the Disappeared in the Artistic Productions by the Children of the Argentine Dictatorship.

I am also in the process of proposing the B.A. Spanish for the Professions at TWU. Students will be able to choose from various tracks including: medical, legal, business, and academic.