Kaitlin M. Murphy is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, faculty in the Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, and affiliated faculty in Latin American Studies and the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona. She is on the Executive Committee of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, a committee member of the Hemispheric Studies Forum of the Modern Languages Association, a council member of the Visual Culture section of the Latin American Studies Association, and co-chair of the Memory and Trauma working group of the Memory Studies Association. She holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies and M.A. in Visual Culture, both from New York University. Her book, Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics (Fordham UP), will be released in October, 2018.