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Elena Valdez
Elena Valdez is a lecturer at Christopher Newport University. She received her PhD in Hispanic literature from Rutgers. Previously she taught at Swarthmore College. She specializes...view moreElena Valdez is a lecturer at Christopher Newport University. She received her PhD in Hispanic literature from Rutgers. Previously she taught at Swarthmore College. She specializes in Hispanic Caribbean literature, US Latina/o literature, twentieth- through twenty-first-century Latin American novel, gender and queer studies, and diaspora studies. Within Latina/o and Caribbean studies, Valdez’s principal interests include queer sexuality, urban space, national identity, and visual culture. She has published a number of articles on contemporary Caribbean literature in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals such as CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, and Letras hispanas. She has presented on a range of topics at professional national and international conferences, such as the Modern Language Association and the Latin American Studies Association. She was the NeMLA Summer Fellow and a recipient of the Columbia University Libraries Research Award.
Elena Valdez es doctora en literatura latinoamericana por la Universidad Rutgers. Ejerció como profesora en Swarthmore College y actualmente enseña en la Universidad Christopher Newport en EEUU. Sus investigaciones sobre literatura del Caribe hispano y literatura de los latinos en los Estados Unidos desde una perspectiva de los estudios de género, sexualidad y la diáspora han sido publicadas en volúmenes editados y revistas académicas, como CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, y Letras hispanas. Además, ha presentado ponencias en conferencias nacionales e internacionales, como Modern Languages Association y Latin American Studies Association. Dentro de los estudios caribeños, sus intereses académicos incluyen la sexualidad queer, el espacio urbano, la identidad nacional y la cultural visual. Fue ganadora de las becas de investigación concedidas por la biblioteca de la Universidad de Columbia en Nueva York y por Northeast Modern Language Association.view less