Vanessa de Veritch Woodside
Assistant Professor
Disciplines
- Chicana/o Studies
- Latina/o Studies
- Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
Research Interests
- the portrayal of women's (re-)negotiation of personal and cultural identities resulting from their new familial and societal roles because of migration in Latino/a texts and films
- transnational motherhood as an alternative maternal paradigm and transnational families in contemporary Chicano/a and Latino/a texts
- Chicana re-writing of predominantly written masculine migrant literature