Nadia Villafuerte

Nadia Villafuerte (she/her) is a scholar, professor, and fiction writer who serves as Assistant Professor in the Literature Department and as affiliated faculty in Latin American Studies and Chicanx/Latinx Studies at UCSD. Her research interests include contemporary Central American, Mexican and Latinxs literatures and cultures; migration studies; transborder literatures and cultures, and creative writing in Spanish.

Pronouns: She/her

Languages: Spanish, English

Books

• *¿Te gusta el látex, cielo? (reedition published in La novela corta. Una biblioteca virtual. UNAM, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y El Caribe, 2023)
• Ships in Houston (translated from Spanish by Julie Ann Ward. Illinois State University Press, 2023)
• Por el lado salvaje (Ediciones B, 2011)
• ¿Te gusta el látex, cielo? (CONACULTA, 2008)
• Barcos en Houston (CONACULTA, 2005)

Articles & Book Chapters

• Villafuerte, Nadia. “Objetos migrantes: un análisis del proyecto Undocumented Migration Project, de Jason de Leon”. Esferas, Journal of NYU´s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, vol. 12, December 2021, p. 63-75.

• Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, New York University, 2024
• M.F.A. in Creative Writing in Spanish, New York University, 2017
• B.A. in Journalism, Autonomous University of Chiapas, 2003