Margarita Saona

Fellow

Margarita Saona teaches Latin American literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Memory Matters in Transitional Peru, Despadre, and other books on literary and cultural studies. Her forthcoming book, Corazón en trance, tells the story of her experience of heart transplantation. She is also working on an essay about the phenomenology of artificial medical technology and transplantation entitled "Of monsters and cyborgs."