Patricia Valladares

Patricia Valladares is a Professor of Latin American and Caribbean literature and film at the University of Cincinnati. Her research and teaching focus on migration, race, gender, sexuality, geographical imagination, and political dissent in literature, cinema, and popular culture. She also engages with critical discourse analysis and digital humanities, particularly digital archives and text-media-memory relationships.

Her academic works include books such as Narrativas del descalabro: La novela venezolana en tiempos de revolución (2018) and Sexualidades disidentes en la narrativa cubana contemporánea (2012). Her recent publications analyze themes like transgender representation in Marcial Gala’s works, Afro-descendant agency in Caribbean cinema, and Venezuelan cinema’s portrayal of social conflict.

Her research demonstrates interdisciplinary engagement with topics ranging from historical trauma in theater to political resistance in music. Valladares has collaborated with scholars such as Leonora Simonovis and maintains active profiles on platforms like Academia.edu and ResearchGate.