Nancy Gates Madsen

Nancy Gates Madsen is Associate Professor of Spanish at Luther College. She has published articles about the legacies of authoritarianism in Argentina on topics ranging from monuments and memorials to the representation of torture. Her book, Trauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling: Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship Argentina (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2016), was awarded the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Modern Language Association for an outstanding publication in the field of Latin American or Spanish literatures and cultures. She is also the co-translator, with Kristin Dykstra, of Violet Island and Other Poems, an anthology of work by Reina María Rodríguez. Her current research explores the intersections of environmental issues and human rights in Latin American cultural production.