Ingrid Luna

Education & Professional History

Universidad de los Andes, MA; University of Notre Dame, PhD

I am an interdisciplinary scholar working across literature, cultural studies, and visual and plastic arts. My areas of specialization are gender, race, and the cultural production of Afro and Indigenous communities in 20th- and 21st-century Latin America. My research on Carnivals has examined the role of popular festivities in the construction of Latin American identity.  

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

 Latin American Studies Association (LASA); Asociación de Colombianistas.

• Latin American Film, Literature, and Visual Culture of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
• Cultural Productions and Media Representations of Afro and Indigenous Communities.
• Latin American Popular Culture.
• Gender Studies.
• Performance Studies.

AWARDS 

2018 Outstanding Instructor Award. Graduate Student Union, University of Notre Dame.

Academic Publications

2023 “Mainstream feminism: Female Identities in Netflix Hits Valeria and Toy Boy,” in “Tu Casa mi Casa”: Transnational Netflix’ Spain. Routledge. 

2017 “Tiempo de fuga: Desterritorializaciones en Madeinusa de Claudia Llosa.” Hispania, vol. 100, no. 4, pp. 612–623.

Book Reviews

2016 Etnógrafos coloniales: Alteridad y escritura en la Conquista de América (siglo XVI), by David Mauricio Solodkow. Cuadernos de Literatura, vol. 20, no. 39, pp. 489–494. 

2015 El Estado Impostor: Apropiacionesliterarias y culturales de la memoria de los muiscas y la América indígena, by Luis Fernando Restrepo. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, año 40, no. 80, pp. 431–435. 

Video interviews 

2023. Yeniter Poleo

2021. Antonio José Ponte

Other Publications

2022 “Desire is Instinct: Pilar Quintana in LALT.” Latin American Literature Today. Dossier, Issue 24. 

2022 “Animality and Writing: A conversation with Pilar Quintana.” Latin American Literature Today, co-editor Oscar Campo. Issue 24.