SOPHIE DUFAYS
-Postdoctoral Researcher-
Sophie Dufays holds a PhD in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and is specialist in Latin American cinema and culture. She has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the FNRS (Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, 2013-2016), as a visiting lecturer at Ghent University, at the UCLouvain and the University of Liège, and as visiting scholar at Stanford University. She is the author of El niño en el cine argentino de la postdictadura (Tamesis 2014) and Infancia y melancolía en el cine argentino (Biblos 2016) and co-editor of two books about the uses of popular songs in Latin American and European Cinemas (published in Libraria, 2018 and Peter Lang, 2019). She has also co-edited two special thematic sections in academic journals (about intimacy and politics in Spanish American literature and cinema, Letras Hispanas, 2016, and about “melodrama and tragedy” in cinema and theatre from Argentina and Mexico, Savoirs en Prisme, 2017).
In the frame of this project, she is interested in the impact of digital culture and resources in the conception and diffusion of audiovisual works produced about the disappeared in Mexico (especially related to the Ayotzinapa case), considering all formats. In particular, she analyses the treatment of faces, voices and landscapes in these works using the concepts of trauma, affect and waste, in order to approach the complex relationship between “memory” and “disappearance”.
