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About
Gabriela Buitrón Vera (Quito, Ecuador) is a researcher and educator. She completed her Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU), where she also obtained a graduate certificate in Women and Gender Studies. Her research draws together debates about climate catastrophes, disaster narratives, migration, history, and gender. Her academic writing and pedagogy explore the intersection between sociopolitical phenomena and civil response to disasters.
As she draws from her experience as an undocumented individual and now a DACA recipient, she is working on a project tentatively titled Documenting Undocumented and Dacamented Narratives of Chicago.
Radio Interviews:
- Invited host in “No existe solo una historia de migración” Xochipilli Podcast. Sponsored by Instituto Cervantes of Chicago, Jul 07th, 2023).
- Invited guest speaker in “Stories and Migration” Xochipilli Podcast. Sponsored by Instituto Cervantes of Chicago, Dec 15th, 2022).
- Invited guest speaker in “TRENDS Podcast: COVID-19 Exacerbates Existing Inequities” KGNU. 88.5 FM Community Radio. Episode Aired on show A Public Affair, May 14, 2020.
- Invited guest speaker in “Pasa la voz” KGNU. 88.5 FM Community Radio. Episode Aired on show #161- DACA, Nov 19, 2018.
Degrees
- Ph.D., Spanish, University of Colorado Boulder, 2020
- MA, Spanish, University of Colorado Boulder, 2015
- BA, World Languages, Northeastern Illinois University, 2011
- AA, (Arts), Wilbur Wright College, 2009
Courses Taught
- SPAN 270 Critical Analysis in Literature
- SPAN 381 Migratory Fictions
- LTR 280 Literature in Translation
Selected Publications
- Buitrón Vera, Gabriela A. “Hacia La construcción De Una ‘ciudadanía casera’ En Ilegal: Reflexiones De Un Inmigrante Indocumentado (2019), De José Ángel Navejas”. Revista Valenciana Estudios De filosofía Y Letras, vol. 16, n.º 32, julio de 2023, pp. 285-09, doi:10.15174/rv.v16i32.718.
- “Comic Book Depictions of the Mexico City Earthquake of 1985.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- “Cracks as Portals of Change: A Reading of Disasters in Juan Villoro's Novel Materia dispuesta (1997).”The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Issue 75.2, (Fall 2021): 157-170.
Book Reviews:
- Ilegal: Reflexiones de un inmigrante indocumentado by José Ángel Navejas, Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, Vol. 52.1, 2023: 28-29 [Link]
- Border Thinking: LatinX Youth: Decolonizing Citizenship by Andrea Dyrness and Enrique Sepúlveda III, Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, Vol. 5, 2021: 277-279.