Spanish and Portuguese
Valeria’s research explores the encounter between literature, science, and technology in Latin American modernities and its correlation to nation-building projects. Broadly revolving around the collapse, erasure or careful delineation of the binaries nature/culture, time/space and local/global, Valeria’s work engages world literature debates, literary geographies, environmental humanities and science fiction theory, among others.Currently, Valeria is a PhD candidate in the Department of Hispanic and Portuguese Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from NYU and a B.A. in Hispanic Literature from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. Her M.A. thesis —which recovers from obscurity the first Cuban science fiction novel—, was prized with the Hirschhorn Master's Project Award by the Center for Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement at NYU. She has more than five years of experience teaching both at NYU and PUCP and more than two working in editing and publishing.