María Teresa Vera-Rojas

María Teresa Vera-Rojas is a lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands and researcher in ADHUC – Research Centre on Theory, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Barcelona. Her field of research is analysis of contemporary literature and culture of the Hispanic Caribbean, Venezuela, and Spain, from a standpoint that includes cultural studies, gender research, queer theory, and post-decolonial feminism. Among her most notable publications is “Se conoce que usted es ‘Moderna’”: Lecturas de la mujer moderna en la colonia hispana de Nueva York (1920–1940) (“You’re Known to be ‘Modern’”: Readings of the Modern Woman in New York’s Hispanic Colony (1920 – 1940), Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2018), winner of the 2020 Victoria Urbano Prize for Best Critical Monograph. She edited Feminismos antirracistas: relecturas para el siglo XXI (Antiracist Feminisms: Re-readings for the 21^st Century, Icaria, 2024) and Nuevas subjetividades/Sexualidades literarias (New Subjectivities / Literary Sexualities, Egales, 2012), and is also compiler and editor of El feminismo no es nuevo: las crónicas de Clotilde Betances Jaeger (Feminism Isn’t New: Chronicles of Clotilde Betances Jaeger, Arte Público Press, 2020). She is currently president of the Venezuelan Studies Section of LASA (Latin American Studies Association) for the period 2024-2026.