Roberta Hurtado

Roberta Hurtado is Associate Professor of Latina/o/x Literature and Culture at SUNY Oswego, where she also serves as Director of Latino and Latin American Studies. Her research examines decolonial feminisms through Puerto Rican women's literature, epigenetics, and trauma studies. She holds a PhD in English and Latina/o Studies from University of Texas San Antonio.

Her scholarly monograph Decolonial Puerto Rican Women's Writings: Subversion in the Flesh (2019) received recognition as an International Latino Book Award finalist. Current projects investigate decolonial erotic aesthetics in literature and domestic violence narratives in post-disaster contexts.

Research employs interdisciplinary frameworks spanning literary analysis, feminist theory, and decolonial epistemology to examine how embodied knowledge challenges colonial legacies. Recent work explores narrative strategies in trauma representation and pedagogical approaches to sexual violence prevention.

Honors include the SUNY Oswego President's Award for Academic Advising (2022) and Provost's Award for Scholarly Activity (2021). She serves as 2023-24 Faculty Fellow for the Triandiflou Institute for Equity, Diversity, and Transformative Practice and is a 2023 SUNY Hispanic Leadership Institute Fellow.

She teaches courses on decolonial literature, feminist methodologies, and trauma narratives while developing curriculum for the Latino and Latin American Studies program.