Beyond Inquisitional Logic, or, Toward an An-archaeological Latin Americanism

ERIN GRAFF ZIVIN is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Spanish Department at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on constructions of Jewishness and marranismo in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic, esthetic representations of torture and interrogation, and the intersection of philosophy and critical theory. She is the author of Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (Northwestern University Press, 2014), The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2008), and editor of The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).