About

Michael J. Lazzara is professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies at the University of California, Davis, as well as chair of Graduate Designated Emphasis in Human Rights Studies. He is author of Civil Obedience: Complicity and Complacency in Chile since Pinochet (2018), Luz Arce and Pinochet’s Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence (2011), and Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory (2006).