Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature, and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of "Figurative Inquisitions: Conversions, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic" (2014; winner of the 2015 Award for Best Book, Latin American Jewish Studies Association) and "The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary" (2008), as well as the editor of "The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism" (2017) and "The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise" (2007). Her most recent book, "Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading," will be published by Fordham UP in January 2020.

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