Alicia Rivero

Alicia Rivero is Adjunct Associate Professor in English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill, with a Ph.D. from Brown University. Her research examines Spanish-American literature through lenses of environmental humanities, gender, and digital theory. Current projects include a book on nature in Latin(a) American literature.

Publications analyze ecological themes in Fuentes' works and Sarduy's neobaroque techniques. Articles integrate scientific concepts like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle into literary criticism.

Honors include Phi Beta Kappa. She has supervised doctoral dissertations on gendered spaces and digital narratives in Hispanic fiction.