Nohora Arrieta Fernandez
B.A., Literature, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; M.S., Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University; Ph.D., Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University
Dissertation:Bittersweet Poetics: Aesthetics and Politics of the Sugar Plantation in Brazil and the Caribbean (1990 – 2018)
Thesis Advisor:Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Vivaldo Santos, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University
Research Topic:Plantation legacies/ Afro-Brazilian arts/ Afro-Latin American cultural and intellectual traditions/ Latin American Literature/Black Studies/ Visual Studies/ Cultural Studies
Mentor:José Luiz Passos, Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
Current Position:Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles