2007-08: Awarded the Early Sabbatical for 2007-08, Feitlowitz spent her term off working on a novel, Anna: Who Did Not Believe in the Sea (early excerpts of which have appeared in Bomb).

In September 2007, Feitlowitz’ article, “The Prosecution of Isabel Perón,” was published in Lost Magazine.

She contributed to Out of Silence: Writers Speak out on Censorship, an international anthology edited by Caridad Svich, forthcoming from University of Manchester Press, Manchester, UK.

Feitlowitz was commissioned to write a review-essay on Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth or Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence, by Leigh Payne (Duke University Press, 2008). The essay is forthcoming in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe (EIAL) published by the University of Tel Aviv.

In November 2006, Feitlowitz served on the Fiction Jury for the Connecticut State Arts Grants.

In May 2006, Feitlowitz lectured at Dartmouth College. She then participated in an international working group convened at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio Italy on “Institutions of Truth and Memory: Resolving the Legacies of Mass Violence.” The forthcoming volume is due out from the University of Pennsylvania Press; Feitlowitz’s chapter draws on primary research in Argentina in the wake of that country’s “Dirty War.”

“The Shadow World of a ‘Dirty War,’ was published in The International Herald Tribune, August 18, 2006. This piece was featured on the PEN American Center Website.

In 2005, Feitlowitz spent two days at Miami University of Ohio where she delivered a large public lecture, as well as smaller talks for students and faculty.

Feitlowitz was quoted in The New York Observer article, It’s for Your Own Good! Tapping, Torturing and Secrets, by Chris Lehman, which appeared on December 26, 2005.

“The Torturer General,” published in Salon, January 6, 2005. Picked up by a host of sites, this piece was featured on the PEN American Center Website.

Bennington magazine, November 2004: Following is an excerpt from the commencement speech of Marguerite Feitlowitz who addressed the Class of 2004 and offered this insight into the next chapter of their lives:

There is an ancient grammatical wisdom, and it’s called the Past Imperfect. It is the tense for actions as yet uncompleted, for stories still unfolding, for memories that will ever be quick and never congeal. It is where the past and present come together in a single conjugation. The Past Imperfect is really all about energy, the transforming energy that carries us through an open expanse of time and space. So, in this spirit, let us all be imperfect.

The Kabbala has it that the world, in its divine creation, was a text, which in the strife of ages, got torn apart, and its fragments spilled, scattered through the cosmos like seed. The mystics hold that our task is to gather up those fragments and re-create the numinous text that is the world. A task at once sacred and impossible. In other words, in the best of words, imperfect.

As my ancient people likes to say on such occasions, “L’Chaim!”

To Life. To Your Lives. Each and Every One.

Bennington magazine, November 2004: Marguerite Feitlowitz was keynote speaker at the New England Translators Association (NETA) Annual Conference, held in Marlborough, MA, May 1–2. Her talk was entitled “‘The Only Safe Words Are Our Words’: Translation in Times of Repression.”

Bennington magazine, May 2004: Marguerite Feitlowitz spoke on the role of literary translators during times of political repression at the annual conference of the American Literary Translation Association, held in November in Cambridge, MA. Her translation of the play Strip, by Griselda Gambaro, is included in Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform, published in January by Duke University Press.