LeilaÌý³Òó³¾±ð³ú

  • Professor
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES
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Dr.ÌýLeilaÌý³Òó³¾±ð³ú in a Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ. Her research interests include Latin American and Indigenous literature, film and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis in the Andes, Mexico, Paraguay and Argentina. She was the Director of theÌýfrom 2017 to 2023 at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ.

Books

  • Ìý(co-author Javier Muñoz and Kathia Ibacache) Routledge 2024.
  • Impossible Domesticity: Travels in MexicoÌý(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022).
  • Teaching Gender through Latin American, Spanish and Latino Literature and Culture, (co-editor with Asunción Horno-Delgado, Mary Long and Núria Silleras). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers 2015.
  • ​Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts 1845-1909. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, October 2011. Translation ofÌýLa piedra del escándalo.
  • Iluminados y tránsfugas: Relatos de viajeros y ficciones nacionales en Argentina, Paraguay y Perú.ÌýMadrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2009.
  • La piedra del escándalo: Darwin en Argentina (1845-1903). Buenos Aires: Simurg, 2008. Edición y estudio preliminar.
  • Entre Borges y Conrad: Estética y territorio en William Henry Hudson.Ìý(co-edited with Sara Castro-Klarén). Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, In press.

Awards:

  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Fellowship for Advanced Researchers, AY 2014-2015.
  • US Department of Education. Title VI IFLE to support Undergraduate Curriculum on Latin American and Latinx Studies at CU and to develop the Quechua Language Program. AY 2020 and 2022.
  • Outstanding Mentor Award. CU Graduate School, AY 2020-2021.
  • Arts and Sciences College Scholar Award, Fall 2024.