About

Vanesa Miseres is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin American literature, with an emphasis on South America.  Her areas of research are travel writing, war literature, women writers, gender, cultural, and food studies. Miseres has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2015.

Her first book, Mujeres en tránsito: viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica (1830-1910) received the Honorable Mention for the Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Prize, awarded annually by the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica. Miseres is also launching a new book project on Latin American women writing on war, from the Latin American independence period to World War II. 

 

Thematic Interests

Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin American literature; women writers; 19thcentury women in journalism; travel literature; war literature; food studies; cultural and gender studies

Current Research

South American women travelers/Female representation of war in South America/Influence of foreign travelogues in Andean costumbrismo.

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Other Accomplishments & Recognitions
  • Premio Roggiano para la Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, International Institute of Latin American Literature, for best book of Latin American literary criticism published between 2016 and 2017 (2018)
  • Mendel Fellowship, Lilly Library of Indiana University, for book project on Latin American women writing on wars (2017)
  • Global Gateway Faculty Research Award, University of Notre Dame, for book project on Latin American women writing on wars (2017)