Zorimar Rivera Montes

Assistant Professor, Department of English

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
  • Caribbean

Research

Puerto Rican, Carribbean, and Latinx Literatures and Cultures

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Northwestern University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2022
  • M.A., University of Puerto Rico, English Literature, 2013
  • B.A., University of Puerto Rico, History of the Americas, 2009

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2023-
  • Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies, Washington University in St. Louis, July 2022-2023
  • Instructor of Record, Northwestern University, September 2018-June 2020
  • Adjunct Instructor, English, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, June 2015- May 2016

Distinctions

  • Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention - 2020
  • Graduate Assistantship- Latina and Latino Studies Program September 2019-June 2020
  • Puerto Rican Studies Association Graduate Student Workshop Fellow - October 2019
  • The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Summer Research Grant - Summer 2019
  • Latin America and Caribbean Studies Cluster at Northwestern Summer Research Grant - Summer 2019

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Puerto Rico

Selected Publications

  • 2020. “For Opacity: Queerness and Latinidad in Justin Torres’ We the Animals” Latino Studies 18 pp. 218-234
  • 2020. “Review: Queer Decolonial Resistance in Raquel Salas Rivera’s The Tertiary/Lo terciario” in Sargasso 2019- 20 pp.155-158.
  • 2018. "Puertorriqueños en los Estados Unidos: Nacionalismo en una nación cambiante" in "Estados Unidos latinos" of Istor: Revista de Historia Internacional, Mexico, Jan 2018 pp. 51-66
  • 2015. “Review: In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam by Urayoán Noel” in Sargasso 2015-16 pp. 189-191.