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Rebecca Atencio
Assistant Professor
Luso-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies
(504) 862-3401
Newcomb Hall 303 C
E-mail: ratencio@tulane.edu

Rebecca Atencio joined the Tulane faculty in 2009 as Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Portuguese from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her main area of research is Brazil's post-dictatorial literary and cultural production. She is currently completing a book titled Literature and Transitional Justice in Contemporary Brazil, which examines a growing subset of contemporary Brazilian literature that contributes to national debates over the legacies oft he military dictatorship (1964-1985) and that intervenes in the country's process of transitional justice (i.e. the redressing of past human rights crimes).  Her recent and forthcoming publications include "A Prime Time to Remember: Memory Merchandising in Globo's Anos Rebeldes" (in Accounting for Violence: The Memory Market in Latin America, eds. Ksenija Bilbija and Leigh Payne, Duke UP 2011) and an essay entitled "Art and Transitional Justice" co-written with Nancy Gates-Madsen (in The Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, eds. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, forthcoming from Cambridge UP). She teaches courses and seminars on Brazilian literature, film, and cultural studies.