Leila Gómez (Ph.D. 2004, Johns Hopkins University) is the Director of CU's Latin American Studies Center since 2017, and Associate Professor of Spanish. Her research interests are travel writing, female Indigenous narratives and films on land reclamation, feminist theory, and Quechua language and culture. Some of Dr. Gómez's publications are her books Darwinism in Argentina (Bucknell UP 2012), Iluminados y tránsfugas. Relatos de viajeros y ficciones fundacionales en Argentina, Paraguay y Perú (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2009), Teaching Gender through Latin American, Spanish and Latino Literature and Culture, (co-editor, Sense Publishers 2015); and Journal Special Issues Indigenous Narratives of Origin and Land Reclamation (English Language Notes 58(1) 2020), and Capitalismo, globalización y violencia de género (Co-editor, Letras femeninas. Vol 43, Nro 2. 2018).
Dr. Gómez was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Advanced Researchers in 2015-2016 and is the Principal Investigator in the Project Building Institutional Continuity funded the US Department of Education Title VI, International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) Grant awarded to the Latin American Studies Center at CU in 2020 to teach Quechua courses at this institution. |