Leila Gomez
Professor • Project Director of the Quechua Program at LALSC
Women and Gender Studies

ÌýOffice Hours: By appointment

Dr.ÌýLeilaÌýGómez in a Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder. 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 theÌýfrom 2017 to 2023 at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder.

Books

  • Ìý(co-author Javier Muñoz and Kathia Ibacache) Routledge 2024.Ìý
  • Impossible Domesticity: Travels in MexicoÌý(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022).Ìý
  • Teaching Gender through Latin American, Spanish and Latino Literature and Culture, (co-editor with Asunción Horno-Delgado, Mary Long and Núria Silleras). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers 2015.
  • ​Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts 1845-1909. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, October 2011. Translation ofÌýLa piedra del escándalo.
  • Iluminados y tránsfugas: Relatos de viajeros y ficciones nacionales en Argentina, Paraguay y Perú.ÌýMadrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2009.
  • La piedra del escándalo: Darwin en Argentina (1845-1903). Buenos Aires: Simurg, 2008. Edición y estudio preliminar.
  • Entre Borges y Conrad: Estética y territorio en William Henry Hudson.Ìý(co-edited with Sara Castro-Klarén). 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 Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØand to develop the Quechua Language Program. AY 2020 and 2022.
  • Outstanding Mentor Award. Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØGraduate School, AY 2020-2021.
  • Arts and Sciences College Scholar Award, Fall 2024.