Dr Jordana Blejmar

Personal Statement

I joined the School of the Arts in 2015, after previously working on an AHRC-funded project on Latin American Digital Art in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. Before moving to Liverpool I was a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London. I have also worked for the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO). I received my doctorate from the University of Cambridge where I was a Gates scholar. I was a member of the steering committee of the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (London) and a founding member of the Federación de Centros de Investigación sobre Memoria en América Latina. I am an Assistant Editor of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and of the Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies. In 2019 I co-curated the installation Tearing up the pastTearing Up the Past at Tate Liverpool. I am now a Tate Associate.