Nohora Arrieta Fernández

Assistant Professor
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
nohoraarrieta@g.ucla.edu
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Keywords: Brazil, Literature, African Diaspora, Colombia, Caribbean

Nohora Arrieta Fernández received her Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies from Georgetown University in 2021, and was a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2023). Her current research focuses on art history, visual studies, the history of commodities, and the intellectual traditions of the African Diaspora in the Americas. She has published essays and articles on Latin American literature and visual arts, comics, and the Afro-Latin American Diaspora, and is a collaborator of art magazines such as Artishock and Contemporyand. Her first co-translation project, Semantic of the World, the Poetry of Romulo Bustos, was published by New Mexico Press (2022). Nohora’s research has been supported by Fulbright, the Brazilian Studies Association, The American Council for Learned Societies, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.