Nagore Sedano Naveira

Nagore Sedano Naveira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies, affiliated faculty in Gender and Queer Studies and member of the GQS advisory board. She received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages as well as a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of Oregon. Prior to arriving at the University of Puget Sound, she also taught at Cornell University and University of Nevada, Reno, where she obtained a MA in Foreign Languages and Literature. Her areas of specializations are Memory Studies, Feminist Affect Theory, Spanish Civil War and Exile, Transatlantic Studies, and Iberian Cultural Studies. Her book project, Gendered Gestures: Voices of Spanish and Basque Women-In-Exile in Latin America, examines the interplay among memory, affect and politics from a transatlantic and intersectional perspective. Gendered Gestures provides a critical account of the ways in which Republican and Basque Nationalist women-in-exile politicize emotion to propose alternatives to the neoliberal political present. Yet it puts Basque and Spanish exiles in dialogue to elucidate the limits that arise from the divergent nationalist ideologies camouflaged in their (anti)colonial transatlantic rhetoric. Dr. Sedano Naveira has published and forthcoming articles on the politics of memory in journals such as Hispanic Review, Revista Hispánica Moderna or Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (Letras Femeninas). Her research interests also include Critical Theory, Basque American Literature, Feminist Pedagogies, and Community-Engaged Learning.

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