Dr. Cuya Gavilano is an Associate Professor of Latin American Cultures at Arizona State University. She is the author of Fictions of Migration: Narratives of displacement in Peru and Bolivia, a book that explores the affects and epistemologies of migration through Andean cultural productions such as films, novels and short stories in the context of regional neoliberal re-arrangements (read the book review here). Her areas of specialization are Andean Studies, migration studies, film analysis, contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies, and Human Geography. She is currently researching the epistemologies and affects of migration. In particular, she is exploring the role of interracial relationships among indigenous, Afro-Peruvian and Chinese migrants in the construction of cultural and economic capital in the Andean region.

Her prize-winning research and academic initiatives have won funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Fulbright Commission, and the ASU Public History Fund among others. Most recently, she has been a Visiting Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne, France. She has also been nominated to Examples of Excelencia, Latino Student Success in Higher Education AY 2021-2022 for her work on the Latinx+1 initiative.

Dr. Cuya Gavilano has extensive pedagogical experience. Before arriving to ASU, she was a professor of Spanish and literature at Bucknell University and Penn State University, but her teaching experience at the college level started in 2002. Since then, she has been teaching language, literature, and culture in Spanish and English, inside and outside of the U.S. She is also the Faculty Lead for the Spanish for the Professions Program at ASU. This program focuses in training students for intercultural interactions in a global job market, and elevating their communicative skills in Spanish, while offering and an in-depth understanding of U.S.-Latinx and Latin American cultures.

Lorena Cuya Gavilano Ph.D.

e-mail: Lorena.Cuya.Gavilano@asu.edu

Read the book review here: https://tramacritica.pe/critica/2023/02/18/ficciones-de-la-migracion/