Natalia Villanueva-Nieves
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Dr. Natalia Villanueva-Nieves earned her doctoral degree in Chicana and Chicano Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her master’s degree in Comparative Literary Studies from Utrecht University. Her research and teaching focus on the following areas: Latinx literatures and expressive cultures, Chicanx, Central American and Caribbean affect, Latinx emotional geographies, digital humanities, relational and hemispheric race studies, and transnational feminisms of the Americas.
Dr. Villanueva-Nieves' upcoming book, The True Colors of Feeling Brown: Affect and Space in Latina Narratives (under contract with Palgrave in the series Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies), uses a relational and hemispheric framework to explore the complex interplay between affect, space, racialization, and gender in Latina novels.
Dr. Villanueva-Nieves is also currently working on a digital monograph that employs digital storytelling and interactive maps to explore Latinx testimonial writing as collective archives of care and hope. Her scholarship and public writing have been published in Chiricú Journal, Ex-Centric Narratives Journal, Zócalo Public Square, American National Biography, Aztlán a Journal of Chicano Studies, and edited volumes by UNAM and the University of Alcala de Henares.