Naomi Lindstrom

Naomi Lindstrom serves as the Gale Family Foundation Professor in Jewish Arts and Culture and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the Gale Collaborative on Jewish Life in the Americas at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies within the College of Liberal Arts.

Her educational background includes a Ph.D. from Arizona State University.

Dr. Lindstrom's research operates at the intersection of Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, and Jewish Studies, with significant contributions to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature. Her work emphasizes:

• Gender analysis in Latin American literary traditions
• Comparative studies of Jewish communities across the Americas
• Theoretical frameworks of literary translation
• Transnational cultural flows
• Sociological dimensions of artistic production

She actively mentors doctoral students in the Iberian and Latin American Literature and Cultures program and Comparative Literature, with particular emphasis on supervising literary translation projects. Her leadership extends to directing the Gale Collaborative on Jewish Life in the Americas and managing the LAJSA-List research network.

Through the Gale Collaborative, she fosters interdisciplinary research on Jewish cultural expressions throughout the Western Hemisphere, facilitating academic exchange among scholars across North and South America.