Nuria Vilanova
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor
CAS | World Languages and Cultures
Bio
Núria Vilanova teaches Latin American Culture, Literature and Cinema. Her research is devoted to the impact of social change on cultural production. She works on textual and cinematic narratives of violence, inequality and poverty, particularly in the Andean region and the Mexican-US border. After completing her PhD at the University of Liverpool, UK (1993), Vilanova lived and worked in several Latin American countries for over fifteen years. She has also taught in Europe. She is the author of Border Texts: Writing Fiction from Northern Mexico (San Diego University Press, 2007) and The Impact of Social Change upon Peruvian Literature (1970-1990) (Edwin Mellen, 1998). She is currently working on a third book about the representation of indigenous peoples on Latin American cinema and co-editing the a forthcoming collection on transnationalism in the humanities, to be published by New Mexico University Press. She joined American University in 2009.
