Living Poetry – Women in Translation - Fermat's Last Theater Co.

Lori DiPrete Brown Sarli Mercado

Lori DiPrete Brown is founding director of UW-Madison’s 4W Women and Well-Being Initiative, which develops and supports a range of innovative programs addressing gender-based inequality and injustice. She is also associate director of the Global Health Institute in the School of Human Ecology, where she develops and facilitates internships and service-learning programs locally and around the world. Lori teaches in the Dept. of Civil Society & Community Studies and is an affiliate of the School of Medicine & Public Health, the African Studies Program and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program.

Sarli Mercado is an author, literary critic, and senior lecturer in the Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese at UW-Madison, where she focuses on Spanish American literature, journalism, translation, and urban cultural studies. She’s the author of Cartografias del destierro: en torno a la posia de Juan Gelman y Luisa Futoransky (Cartographies of Exile: On the Poetry of Juan Gelman and Luisa Futoransky), has published and presented her work on contemporary Spanish American poetry throughout the Americas and Europe, and actively collaborates with the Museum of Environmental Sciences at the Univ. of Guadalajara.