Rate My Professor Erika Almenara

Almenara's research centers on Latin American cultural production, gender violence, and queer/cuir studies, with particular attention to travesti representations, post-hegemony, and gender perceptions in post-conflict societies. Her major publication is the monograph The Language of the In-Between: Travestis, Post-hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2022. She is currently completing her second book, Literary and Cultural Representations of Social Gender Perception in Post-Conflict Societies, advanced during her Fulbright U.S. Scholar award. Selected peer-reviewed articles include "Trauma y memoria en La sangre de la aurora de Claudia Salazar y Magallanes de Salvador del Solar" (Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2017), "Escritura, travestismo e izquierda en Pedro Lemebel" (Nomadías, 2016), and "Descomposición de la masculinidad peruana en Bioy de Diego Trelles Paz" (Revista Iberoamericana, 2018). Almenara received the Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant for 2022-23, enabling her to lecture and conduct research at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú from March to July 2023. In 2025, she was awarded the Hoyt Purvis Award for leadership in international education. She also secured the School of Art Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellowship in 2026 for the project Healing Terror With Arts. Additionally, Almenara serves as associate editor of Fulbright Chronicles and contributes to the U of A Fulbright Students Association and cultural events, significantly impacting the academic field through scholarly networks and public diplomacy.