Ilka Kressner

Ilka Kressner is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY, affiliated with the Languages, Literatures & Cultures and Africana, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies departments. She holds the LLC Chair and focuses on Latin American and Latinx cultural production.

Education:

• PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Virginia

Her research spans environmental humanities, ecofeminisms, intermediality, and ecocritical frameworks, interrogating colonial/neocolonial ecological concepts. She has published on non-spaces in Latin American cinema, slow violence, and anti-colonial resistance narratives.

Scientific Awards and Grants:

• NEH Humanities Summer Stipend
• Individual Development Awards (College of Arts and Sciences)
• Faculty Research Awards (FRAP-B)
• Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Award (NYS/UUP)
• Conversations in the Disciplines Grant (SUNY Central)
• UTulsa Second Book Institute Fellowship

Kressner mentors doctoral research on biofictions, trauma, monsters in Latin American media, narco culture, and more. She co-organized the annual Living in Languages Colloquium and advises its journal, while also mentoring UAlbany’s Tango Club.