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Gabriela Nuñez

Gabriela Nuñez

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor
  • (on leave for 2011-2012)

Departments

Location

  • 335 A
  • Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus

Phone Number

  • (502) 852-3048

Email Address

Website

Bio

Office Hours SP 2011: T - 2:00 - 4:00

Professor Nuñez’s research interests include contemporary Latina/o literature and popular culture, narratives about child and adolescent border-crossing, genre fiction, as well as nineteenth-century bilingual periodicals in the U.S., Her current book manuscript, Border Noir, examines contemporary Chicana/o and Mexican narratives about crime on the U.S.-Mexico border and their engagement with both the detective and speculative fiction genres.


Educational Background

  • Dr. Nuñez earned a B.A. in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, San Diego. She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latina/o Studies and English at Northwestern University (2007-08).
 
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