Draft:Juana Gamero de Coca

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Juana Gamero de Coca was a teacher and scholar of Spanish language, literature, and culture, whose work focused on 20th and 21st Century literatures of Spain and Latin America, especially in terms of nation, race, gender, and sexuality. From 2004-2017, she was professor of Spanish Literature and Culture in the Luso-Hispanic Studies Department at Middlebury College, Vermont (USA). She also taught in the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and International and Global Studies departments of Middlebury College.

She was born in Alburquerque (Badajoz), Spain in 1959 and studied in Valladolid and at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She came to the United States in 1985, starting a family and living and working in Washington, DC, Chapel Hill, NC, and Laredo, TX, among other places. She received her BA in General Studies from the University of Pittsburgh (1996), the MA in Latin American Studies from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces (1998), and the PhD in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004).

She died Oct. 7, 2017 in Middlebury, VT USA.

Selected Bibliography:

Nación y género en la invención de Extramadura: Soñando fronteras de cielo y barro. Pontevedra, España: Mirabel Editorial, 2005. “El indio de la nación: Las Batuecas del duque de Alba y la geografía hecha discurso.” Signos Literarios, 2.3 (2006): 27-41. “El arte hiperdramático en Clara y la penumbra de José Carlos Somoza: la frontera límite del cuerpo.” Espéculo: Revista de Estudios Literarios. 2009. La mirada monstruosa de la memoria: Desviaciones de la memoria en la novelística Española contemporánea. San Lorenzo de El Escorial: Ediciones Libertarias, 2009. “Los principes nubios y el mito perdido en la historia de la prostitución.” Cultura y Representaciones Sociales, 5.10 (2011). 210-237. Sexualidad, violencia, y cultura. Bogotá: Ediciones Desde Abajo, 2013. Soñando fronteras de cielo y barro: Nación y género en la invención de Extramadura. Madrid: Editorial Pliegos, 2017.

Sources “In Memoriam: Juana Gamero de Coca,” Oct. 9, 2017. https://www.middlebury.edu/announcements/memoriam/2017/10/memoriam-juana-gamero-de-coca “Juana Gamero de Coca Annual Day of Learning 2022: Reproductive Justice.” https://www.middlebury.edu/events/event/juana-gamero-de-coca-day-learning-2022-reproductive-justice “Juana Gamero de Coca Annual Day of Learning 2021: Global Gender and Cultures.” https://www.middlebury.edu/events/event/juana-gamero-de-coca-day-learning-global-gender-and-cultures “Amor y Memoria: Celebrating the Life of Juana Gamero de Coca,” The Middlebury Campus, Nov. 1, 2017. https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2017/11/amor-y-memoria-celebrating-the-life-of-juana-gamero-de-coca “Nani Gamero, la Alburquerqueña que hizo realidad el sueño americano,” Revista Azagala, Sept. 30, 2018. http://www.revistaazagala.org/2018/09/30/nani-gamero-la-alburquerquena-que-hizo-realidad-el-sueno-americano-2/ “Capitol Hill, 1985: Memories of Nani,” City of Rhetoric blog, Nov. 18, 2017. https://cityofrhetoric.com/2017/11/18/capitol-hill-1985-1987-memories-of-nani/