Professor • Project Director of the Quechua Program at LALSC
Women and Gender Studies
听Office Hours: By appointment
Dr.听Leila听G贸mez in a Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at 抖阴旅行射 Boulder. Her research interests include Latin American and Indigenous literature, film and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis in the Andes, Mexico, Paraguay and Argentina. She was the Director of the听from 2017 to 2023 at 抖阴旅行射 Boulder.
Books
- 听(co-author Javier Mu帽oz and Kathia Ibacache) Routledge 2024.听
- Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico听(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022).听
- Teaching Gender through Latin American, Spanish and Latino Literature and Culture, (co-editor with Asunci贸n Horno-Delgado, Mary Long and N煤ria Silleras). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers 2015.
- 鈥婦arwinism in Argentina: Major Texts 1845-1909. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, October 2011. Translation of听La piedra del esc谩ndalo.
- Iluminados y tr谩nsfugas: Relatos de viajeros y ficciones nacionales en Argentina, Paraguay y Per煤.听Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2009.
- La piedra del esc谩ndalo: Darwin en Argentina (1845-1903). Buenos Aires: Simurg, 2008. Edici贸n y estudio preliminar.
- Entre Borges y Conrad: Est茅tica y territorio en William Henry Hudson.听(co-edited with Sara Castro-Klar茅n). Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, In press.
Awards:
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Fellowship for Advanced Researchers, AY 2014-2015.
- US Department of Education. Title VI IFLE to support Undergraduate Curriculum on Latin American and Latinx Studies at 抖阴旅行射 and to develop the Quechua Language Program. AY 2020 and 2022.
- Outstanding Mentor Award. 抖阴旅行射 Graduate School, AY 2020-2021.
- Arts and Sciences College Scholar Award, Fall 2024.