prof. dr. V. Grinberg Pla (Valeria)

Dr. Valeria Grinberg Pla is a literary, cultural and film critic from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who like many other Latinxs has moved to the United States. Since 2006 she is a Professor of Spanish at Bowling Green State University in the US.
She is honored to be the recipient of a REI Professorship in 2021 to work and collaborate at Radboud Institute for Culture and History.
You can find her on the 5th floor of the Erasmustower until the end of November and again in Spring 2022.
Her research focuses on:
-the connection between movement (migration, dance, manual work) and critical perspectives on nationhood and identity;
-the appropriation and transformation of crime fiction and noir aesthetics in Latin America and the Caribbean;
-literary and film strategies to make sense of the past in Latin America;
-the Panafrican, transnational (literary) movements of the Afro-Caribbean populations in the Americas and beyond.