Marguerite Feitlowitz

Marguerite Feitlowitz is an American author and translator whose work has focused on "languages-within-languages" and the way disaster "affects our relationship to language." She is the author of ''A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture'', a 1998 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, as well as numerous essays and translations.

A vocal critic of the Bush administration's human rights record, Feitlowitz has published a number of articles on the subject in ''Salon'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20070208213342/http://archive.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/01/06/torture/index_np.html] and ''The International Herald Tribune'' [http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/18/opinion/edfeit.php]

She is a professor of Literature at Bennington College in Vermont. Provided by Wikipedia