Participant Info

First Name
Vanesa
Last Name
Miseres
Country
United States
State
IN
Affiliation
University of Notre Dame
Website URL
https://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/faculty/vanesa-miseres/
Keywords
Nineteenth century, women’s cultural history, war, feminism, gender studies, travel writing, food history, Latin America
Availability
Media Contact
Additional Contact Information
PhD
PhD

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About Me

I specialize in 19th- and early 20th-century Latin America. My research spans travel writing, war, gender studies, cultural studies, and food studies. My work has been featured in Chasqui, MLN, Letras Femeninas, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, LARR, and Revista Hispánica Moderna, among others.

My first book, Mujeres en tránsito: viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica (1830–1910) , won the 2018 Alfredo Roggiano Prize for Latin American Literary Criticism (IILI) and received Honorable Mention for the Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Prize by the Association of Gender & Sexuality Studies. My publications also explore 19th-century journalism, visual and material culture, women in science, Modernism, food and culture, and contemporary topics such as the representation of obstetric violence in Latin American literature and visual media.

My forthcoming book, Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism (University of Toronto Press, 2025), explores women’s writings on war from the turn of the 20th century to World War II, highlighting their connections to feminist debates in Latin America. This project earned awards including a Mendel Fellowship (Lilly Library), a Global Gateway Faculty Research Award (Notre Dame), and a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.

I am currently writing a cultural history of gender and science in Latin America—exploring botany, domestic science, and gynecology and a cultural history of vegetarianism in Latin America since 1900.

Recent Publications
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
Latin America
Expertise by Chronology
19th century
Expertise by Topic
Diplomacy, Food History, Gender, Material Culture, Medicine, Science, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women, World War I, World War II