Cara Levey (MA Institute for the Study of the Americas, London; PhD University of Leeds) is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at University College Cork, which she joined in 2013 from the University of Leeds. Her work generally focuses on the politics of memory and activism in the Southern Cone and she is particularly interested in the legacy of state violence, disappearance, imprisonment and exile on children and adolescents. She is the author of Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity: Commemoration and Contestation in Post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay (Peter Lang, 2016) and articles on commemoration and intergenerational memory in History and Memory, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Journal of Romance Studies and Latin American Perspectives.

Her current work focuses on the hijxs del exilio, considering the manifold ways in which the past is treated and "worked through" by second generation. The project engages with cultural production, activism and looks at Chilean, Argentine and Uruguayan exile communities across Europe. The results of this research have been published in Bulletin of Latin American Research, Bulletin of Spanish Studies and as several book chapters.