Lorena Cuya Gavilano
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Mail code: 0520Campus: Tempe
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Lorena Cuya-Gavilano is an associate professor of Latin American Cultures. She received her doctorate in Spanish and Latin American studies from Penn State University, where she also obtained a minor in Cultural Geography. Her research focuses in Andean Migration, Andean Visual Arts, Andean Narrative, Transnationalism, Contemporary Latin American film and literature.
She is the author of "Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia" (Ohio State University Press, 2021, 2025). Her work examines contemporary migratory flows in the Andean region through economic, epistemological, aesthetic, and decolonial lenses. Other research areas include the "transnational Andes," the Chinese connection in the Andes, the post-Cold War and the Anthropocene Andean cultural productions.
She has won funding for research and other academic initiatives from The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), The Fulbright Commission, the ASU History Fund, and CISA awards. She has been a visiting scholar in Peru, Ecuador, and France.
She serves as the Faculty Lead for the Spanish for the Professions Program and an Editorial board member for Imagofagia: Revista Virtual de Cine. She is currently serving as an executive board member for The Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) from the Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network and is leading other research initiatives such as the Andean Border Thinking Group and the Peruzonians Archive.
For more info, see CV here.
Ph.D. Spanish and Latin American Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Andean Studies
Andean Migration and transnationalism, Epistemologies of Migration, Affects and Migration
Asian Diasporas in the Andes, Chinesse and African Encounters in the Andes
Andean Visual Arts
Latin American Cultural Studies
Film Studies
Languages for Specific Purposes Pedagogy, Spanish for Specific Purposes
Migration Studies
Peruvian Studies
Bolivian Studies
Film Studies
Latin American Studies
Intercultural Communication in Spanish for Specific Purposes
Asian Diasporas
Selected Publications:
For complete references, see here
Book
Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia (Ohio State University Press, 2021)
Book Chapters
“Tusán, capataz y alcalde: el caso de Enrique Baca Niño Ladrón de Guevara.” In Chinos de Ultramar: represiones, resistencias y resiliencias. v.3. Eds. Ronald Soto-Quirós et al. Mexico: Palabra de Clío Editorial y Editorial de la Sede del Pacífico. 2021. Read here.
“Competencia intercultural en EFE/ Teaching Intercultural Competence in SSP.” In: Español para Fines Específicos (EFE) / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish for Specific Purposes. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group Press. Under contract and forthcoming, 2021.
Publications in Peer Review Journals
“Cinematografía decolonial: disidencias epistémicas, asincronías globales y migración en los andes.” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of Luso-Hispanic World. Accepted. Forthcoming, expected Fall 2021.
“A Chinese Man in the Andes: Migration and Racial Solidarity.” Special Issue on Chinese Latinxs. Chinese America: History and Perspectives. Forthcoming, expected Summer/Fall 2021.
“Nostalgia por el futuro: sobre migración y neoliberalismo en el Perú.” Special Issue for the Two Hundred Years of Peruvian Independence, Hispanófila, Ensayos de Literatura. Eds. Oswaldo Estrada and Carlos Villacorta. Forthcoming Fall 2021.
“Madness and Migration: Broken Geographies in Peruvian Cinema.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Forthcoming 2018.
“Narrativas contaminadas: la estética de la migración en Perú, nuevos signos nacionales.” A Contracorriente. A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 14.3 (2017) 143-170.
“Internal Migration, The Publishing Industry, and Transnational Identities in Two Peruvian Writers.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 69.1 (2016): 1-16.
“17th Century Environmentalism Contextualized: Garcilaso de la Vega’s Comentarios reales.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 19 (2015): 51-73.
"Ser para otro: Máscaras, Fresa y Chocolate y la retórica de la metáfora homosexual." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 88.7 (2011): 811-828.
“Topografía de los cuerpos vejados en ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero? y La tía Julia y el escribidor de Mario Vargas Llosa.” Tropos 24 (2008): 31-50.
Rados Rangelova. Gendered Geographies in Puerto Rican Cultures. Spaces, Sexualities, Solidarities. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2015. 217 páginas. Letras Femeninas. 42.2 (2017): 160-162.
María de los Ángeles Romero. Narrativa de la violencia: el hiperrealismo de Rubem Fonseca y Fernando Vallejo. Montevideo: Antithesis 2014. (Hermenéuticas/2). 166 páginas. Revista Iberoamericana. 15.60 (2015): 234-236.
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SPA 691 | Seminar |
| SLC 691 | Seminar |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 325 | Intro to Hispanic Literature |
| SPA 325 | Intro to Hispanic Literature |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SPA 405 | Latino Cult. Persp. for the Pr |
| COM 362 | Urban Comm Latinx City |
| SPA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SPA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SPA 493 | Honors Thesis |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 404 | SPA in U.S. Prof. Communities |
| SPA 494 | Special Topics |
| SPA 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SPA 405 | Latino Cult. Persp. for the Pr |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 493 | Honors Thesis |
| SPA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SPA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SPA 317 | Spanish for the Professions |
| SLC 691 | Seminar |
| SPA 691 | Seminar |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 493 | Honors Thesis |
| SPA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SPA 405 | Latino Cult. Persp. for the Pr |
| SPA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SPA 494 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 493 | Honors Thesis |
| SPA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SPA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| COM 394 | Special Topics |
| SPA 404 | SPA in U.S. Prof. Communities |
| TCL 394 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 493 | Honors Thesis |
| SPA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SPA 405 | Latino Cult. Persp. for the Pr |
| SPA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SPA 405 | Latino Cult. Persp. for the Pr |
Selected:
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Summer Stipends. “Affective Economies of Migration.” June-July 2023.
Fulbright Scholar Award. “Andean Border Thinking and Chinese Migration to Peru.” 2022-2023.
ASU Public History Fund. Peruzonians Archive: Stories of Peruvian Migrants in Arizona. PI.
(Co-PIs Matthew Casey, Alvaro Cerrón-Palomino, and Carmen Umeres, Leslie Carpio). Fall 2021. $ 3,500.
Nominated to Examples of Excelencia, Latino Student Success in Higher Education AY 2021-2022.
CISA Summer Research Award. “Chinese in the Andes: Migration, Racial Solidarity, and Political Radicalization.” Summer 2021. $ 5,000.
CISA Summer Research Award. “Andean Migration: Nostalgia for the Future.” Summer 2020. $ 5,000.
CISA Summer Research Award. “Migration and Modernity in the Andes.” Summer 2018. $ 5,000.
CISA Summer Research Award. “Andean Films, Neoliberal Strategies.” Summer 2017. $ 5,000.
Contributor for https://tramacritica.pe/
Editorial Board. Imagofagia: Revista Virtual de Cine. Present.
Evaluator for Chaski, Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, 2020.
Evaluator for Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. University of Washington, St. Louis and Columbia University. 2018.
Evaluator for Hispania. Film and Literature. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2017.
Evaluator for Letras Hispanas. 2013.
Editorial Board. Board Editor. Aleph. 2008.
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
Arizona Language Association (AZLA)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Migration Studies Cluster (ASU, Tempe)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Northeastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)
Member of graduate faculty of the School of International Letters & Cultures (SILC) for Spanish.
Selected Past Consulting Work:
Peruvian Ministry of Education. National Reading and Writing Evaluations.
Real Academia de la Lengua. Linguistic Atlas - Andean areas.
Executive Board Member. Faculty Representative. The Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP). Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network. 2022-2024.
PI. Peruzonians Archive: Stories of Peruvian Migrants in Arizona. Collaborators: Arizona Peruvian Association (AZPEAS), Co-PIs Matthew Casey, Alvaro Cerrón-Palomino, Carmen Umeres, and Leslie Carpio.
Global Latin American Studies. Research Cluster. ASU Institute for Humanities Research. https://ihr.asu.edu/research-clusters/global-latin-american-studies