Yamile Silva

Yamile Silva is Assistant Professor at the University of Scranton. She received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2011. Her scholarly work revolves around seventeenth- and twentieth-century Spanish Women writers, Spanish American Literature (Colonial and Contemporary), Women's Studies, Transatlantic Studies. She is particularly interested in discourses concerned with gender, sexuality and ethnicity. She recently published the article “Soledad Acosta de Samper y su proyecto de la Nación” in the book Gendering Citizenship and Globalization edited by Auxiliadora Pérez (Alfar, 2011). She is currently finishing the essay “Nuevas prácticas espaciales: epístolas femeninas desde el Río de la Plata durante los s. XVI y XVII” that will appear in Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. ed. Rocio Quispe-Agnoli and Mónica Díaz, Ashgate Publishing.