Books By Elena Valdez - Author

Elena Valdez is a lecturer at Christopher Newport University. She received her PhD in Hispanic literature from Rutgers. Previously she taught at Swarthmore College. She specializes in Hispanic Caribbean literature, US Latina/o literature, twentieth- through twenty-first-century Latin American novel, gender and queer studies, and diaspora studies. Within Latina/o and Caribbean studies, Valdez's principal interests include queer sexuality, urban space, national identity, and visual culture. She has published a number of articles on contemporary Caribbean literature in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals such as CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, and Letras hispanas. She has presented on a range of topics at professional national and international conferences, such as the Modern Language Association and the Latin American Studies Association. She was the NeMLA Summer Fellow and a recipient of the Columbia University Libraries Research Award.