title: Marguerite Feitlowitz
text: # Marguerite Feitlowitz
  
  Marguerite Feitlowitz is an 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 and The International Herald Tribune
  
  She is a professor of Literature at Bennington College in Vermont.
  
  