Please note: Tenesoya has left the "Romance Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.
Thenesoya Vidina Martín De la Nuez (Ph.D. Harvard University) is a scholar of Spanish (Pen)Insular literature and culture, African and Asian literature in Spanish. Her research and teaching interests include Islands and Archipelagic postcolonial literature, Environmental and Digital Humanities.
Her research delves into topics related to islands and archipelagic studies; islands colonization and the relationship between landscape and power; the rhetoric of imperial insularity in Transatlantic and Pacific territories; displacement; discourses and practices of national and peripheral identity formation; as well as of notions of provincialism, belonging, isolation, fluidity, and migration. Thenesoya's interests comprise photography and film, literary and "artivism" responses in the Anthropocene, digital humanities, and mapping visualizations.
As a cultural manager, she is the creator of CISLANDERUS cultural project and traveling exhibition, currently part of the permanent collection of Louisiana State Museum.
She is currently working as a Spanish Instructor in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University.
Research interests: Atlantic and Archipelagic Studies; (Pen)insular Spanish literature; African and Asian literature in Spanish; Migration-Displacement Studies; Photography/Film Studies; Environmental Humanities; Digital Humanities.
Office Location: | 205 Language Center, Durham, NC 27708 |
Office Phone: | (919) 660-3101 |
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Web Pages: | https://duke.academia.edu/ThenesoyaVidinaMart%C3%ADnDelaNuez https://www.cislanderus.com/ |