Roberta Hurtado

Roberta Hurtado is the Associate Professor of Latina/e/o/x Literature and Culture at SUNY Oswego. She is currently the Inaugural Director of the Latino and Latin American Studies (LLAS) Program, the 2023-24 Inaugural Fellow for the James A Triandiflou ’88 Institute for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Transformative Practice, and a 2023 SUNY Hispanic Leadership Fellow. Her research interests focus on Latina Decolonial Feminisms, with an emphasis in Puerto Rican Women’s Literature, Epigenetics, and Trauma Studies. She has published in journals such as Chiricú, Label Me Latina/o, and Diálogo. Her book, Decolonial Puerto Rican Women’s Writings: Subversion in the Flesh, was published in 2019 as part of Palgrave Macmillan “Literature of the Americas” series and was a silver medalist for the International Latino Book Awards. Her current projects include a manuscript entitled But is it Sexy? Decolonial Erotic Aesthetics in Puerto Rican Women’s Literature.

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• Roberta Hurtado 
• Latino and Latin American Studies at Oswego
• SUNY Hispanic Leadership Institute