Maria Soledad Marambio Castro
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Researcher
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Publications
Moving image/film
Academic article
Media interview
Conference lecture
- Soledad Marambio (2019). “On Sylvia Molloy and reading through the cracks”. (external link)
- Maria Soledad Marambio Castro (2021). Gloria vs. Gloria Bell: Traducir con miedo el cuerpo que envejece.. (external link)
- Maria Soledad Marambio Castro (2021). Aurora Venturini and Her “Old Bitches”: Abject Representations of Old Age as Metaphor of a Falling Country. (external link)
- Soledad Marambio (2018). 'Aurora Venturini's Nights: The Angst of Falling Asleep and the Dread of Waking up'. (external link)
Academic monograph
Lecture
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Peer-reviewed academic monograph:
- Sujetos del deseo: Una exploración de la traducción amateur en los años del panamericanismo. De Gruyter 2021. (Subjects of Desire: An Exploration of Amateur Translation in the Years of Pan Americanism).
This book analyzes, conceptualizes and historicizes the amateur translator figure as a political and cultural agent in US-Latin American relations, from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. It is the first study to offer a modern history of the amateur translator as subject of resistance and cultural mediator between the two regions.
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters:
- “Anne Pedersdotter and the Erasure of Old Age: Misleading Approaches to a Witch.” Age, Culture, Humanities. Forthcoming 2027.
This article examines representations of Norway’s most famous witch-hunt victim and argues that artistic retellings of her story have systematically erased the significance of her old age.
- “Bloody Journey: What Female Protagonists Find in Menopause Narratives?” Age, Culture, Humanities 2023. Vol. 7. Eds. Elizabeth Barry and Margery Vibe Skagen.
The article uses the basic narrative structure of Campbell’s hero’s journey to analyze female protagonists in various menopause narratives found in both fiction and non-fiction books.
- “Viejas de mierda. Aurora Venturini y el derrumbe de la Argentina patricia.” (“Old Hags: Aurora Venturini and the Collapse of Patrician Argentina”.) 2021. In Irreverente y desmesurada: Aurora Venturini frente a la crítica. Eds. Karina Vázquez and Claudia García. Albatros Ediciones, serie Palabras de América.
This book chapter studies how Venturini uses age as a symbol of the decline of the Argentine aristocracy following the rise of Peronism and mass society.
- “The Insolent Gaze of Chilean Poet Elvira Hernández”. World Literature Today. Vol. 94 No. 4, Autumn 2020.
The article analyzes Hernández's body of work and how it has taken on the political violence, poverty, and inequality created by the last Chilean dictatorship and maintained by the democratic governments that followed.
Scholarly Films related to my research:
- Cuando un salmón se desvía (When a Salmon Strays). August 2026. PI research for the UiB Darklax project.
The short tells the story of one salmon, born wild and invasive in the Argentinian Patagonia, a descendant of fish that escaped from the first experiments with salmon farming in Chile. The film is, at the same time, a reflection on how to tell the stories of more-than-human nature.
De mi sangre: un ensayo sobre la menopausia (About My Blood: An Essay on Menopause) 2022.
Product of the PI research for the University of Bergen Ageing’s Project.
This short video essay explores the silence and the shame that surround the biological and culturally loaded stages of perimenopause and menopause through a reflection that binds together mother, daughters, women accused of being witches, and killer whales.
The short was screened in several international film festivals and academic and cultural settings. It won the Latin American Studies Association Award of Merit in Film, 2023. It was published in the journal Age, Culture, Humanities. Vol. 7. Issue: Transitional, Relational Aging.
- Retazos: una conversación con Sylvia Molloy (Pieces of Memory: A Conversation with Sylvia Molloy). 2019. Product of the PI research for the University of Bergen Ageing’s Project.
This short is an interview with Argentinian writer Sylvia Molloy, and it is also a reflection on writing, memory and what is lost and gained with the passage of time. The short has been widely used in classrooms and cultural venues in the U.S. and Latin America.