Professional Activities

Plenary Speaker, New South Wales Centenary of Federation Committee Symposium 2001 in Sydney, Australia, November 2001

Judge, First International Tribunal on Linguistic Genocide, The Hague, April 30-May 6, 1999

Master Class Lecturer, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 1998

Keynote Speaker, Panelist, and Chairperson of three panels, Writing the Deep South, an International Conference of Writers from South Africa, Chile, and Australia, November 1998

Contributor, Edinburgh Film Festival, with My House is On Fire, 1997

Keynote Speaker, Toronto International Film Festival, 1997

Host and writer, Literati, 1994, 1995, 1996 seasons, Canadian Broadcasting Company, and Bravo Channel

Frequent contributor to El Pais (Madrid), Proceso de México, A Folha de Sao Paolo, Pagina Doce, Clarín (Buenos Aires), El Diario de Caracas, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, The Nation, Newsday, The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Le Monde, The Observer, and The Independent (London). Contributor to Der Spiegel, Le Nouvel Observateur, The London Guardian, New Society, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, and Granta.

Frequent contributor to the following journals: Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Revista Iberoamericana, Revista de la UNAM, Texto Crítico, Casa de las Américas, Review, Crisis, Amaru, Revista Chilena de Literatura, Anales de la Universidad de Chile, Nueva Sociedad, Ideologies and Literatures, Cuadernos de la Realidad Nacional, Mapocho. (See Essay Listings)

Lectures and/or readings, many as a Distinguished Lecturer, at the University of Richmond, Tisch School – NYU, Columbia, Stanford, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Los Angeles, University of California-La Jolla, Harvard, MIT, Duke, Swarthmore, Syracuse, Buffalo, Skidmore, University of Maryland-College Park, George Mason University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Washington University-Seattle, Washington University-St. Louis, Kansas State University, Tufts, Dartmouth, Princeton, University of Southern California, Loyola, University of California-Santa Barbara, Otterbein College, Wooster College, Ohio State University, DePaul University, Iowa University, University of Colorado-Boulder, Colorado State University, and Wake Forest University.

Participant and organizer, Forum on Migration of the Academics, UNESCO (Paris). Participant in the plenary session of the International Forum on Intervention, Académie Universelle Des Cultures in Paris, and UNESCO (Paris) Plenary Session. Keynote speaker, plenary session of the MLA in Chicago; International PEN at the Hague and Stockholm; conferences at Cornell; Free University, Berlin; a plenary session at LASA, in New Orleans. Special lecturer, New York Public Library. Closing speaker, Amnesty International’s General Assembly, Atlanta. One of the main speakers, Theatre Communications Group biannual meeting, Smith College; speaker, UN General Assembly World Press Freedom Day. Served on the Boston University keynote panel on Memory in honor of Elie Weisel; and has read at the 92nd Street YMCA; the London Festival of Books; Cheltenham International Literary Festival; and the Paris Book Fair.

Director, Cultural Extension, Spanish Department, University of Chile, 1970-73.

Director, Cultural TV programs, University of Chile and Catholic University TV, 1971-72