Margarita Pignataro

Margarita Pignataro serves as Director and Assistant Lecturer for the Latina/o Studies Program and adjunct faculty in the Department of English at the University of Wyoming since 2016. She teaches cross-listed courses in Latina/o Studies, American Studies, African American Diaspora Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Native American Indigenous Studies.

Her research focuses on Latino diaspora, Mujerista theology, U.S. Latino/Chicano/Afro-Caribbean philosophy, and Literatura Latina. Current projects include Literatura Latina in the Classroom, Sephardic Jews and Latino communities in Israel, and a short story collection.

Education includes a Ph.D. in US Latino/Chicano Literature and Spanish (Arizona State University), M.A. in Spanish Literature and Culture (Arizona State University), and B.A. in Spanish (Florida State University).