Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Dr. Mônica Carvalho Gimenes is a visiting assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, with a focus area in Latin American literatures and cultures. Her research and teaching focus on 20th and 21st-century narrative, crime fiction, feminist theories and practices, and decolonial theories.
She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines how literature contributes to understanding feminicide and feminist resistance in Latin America. Through the study of 21st-century novels and short stories written by women authors from Brazil and Argentina, her book contends that feminist writers reinvigorate genres such as horror and crime fiction, expanding the conversation about feminicidal violence beyond simplistic victim-perpetrator paradigms that neglect systemic violence. In dialogue with contemporary feminist theories and practices, her book shows how feminist literature challenges national histories of political violence and exposes the biases of national justice systems against women, Black, and Indigenous communities.
Mônica Carvalho Gimenes is also a translator, and has co-translated Revista Pihhy, a journal that highlights, records, and circulates indigenous knowledge. Before coming to BU, she obtained a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley, an MA in Spanish, and a BA in Multimedia Studies: Journalism from Florida Atlantic University.