Associate Professor of Spanish and
Latin American and Latinx Studies Program Director
Research areas include: Hispanic modernismo, queer and gender studies, visual culture, memory and commemoration, affect theory, and landscape and geographical imagination
Carla Giaudrone holds a PhD in Hispanic literature from New York University, with a specialization in 20th and early-21st-century Latin American literature and culture.
Her research explores the intersections of literature, cultural identity, and environmental thought within Latin American and Latinx contexts. Her recent work is grounded in environmental humanities, focusing on how landscape, ecology, and national identity are represented and contested in literature, audiovisual culture, and material archives.
Dr. Giaudrone’s forthcoming book, ¿Suavemente ondulado? Paisaje, medio ambiente e imaginación geográfica en la literatura uruguaya del siglo XX [Gently Undulating? Landscape, Environment, and Geographic Imagination in 20th-Century Uruguayan Literature, is the result of over a decade of research into how Southern Cone writers have imagined the land as a space of national and ecological significance. The study explores the dynamic relationship between geographical imagination and cultural representations of landscape and nature in twentieth- and twenty-first-century artistic production from Uruguay and the River Plate region. Drawing on frameworks from cultural geography, geocriticism, ecocriticism, and queer ecology, the book contributes to the field of environmental humanities by highlighting underrepresented regions of Latin America and amplifying diverse experiences and viewpoints related to otherness and difference.
Dr. Giaudrone’s research also informs her teaching and community-based initiatives, such as Voces de la Comunidad, developed in collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH). Through storytelling and zine-making, the initiative explores environmental and cultural narratives rooted in Camden, NJ.
Through her work, Dr. Giaudrone bridges literature, ecology, and public engagement, affirming the vital role of the humanities in addressing contemporary environmental and social challenges.
Selected Peer-reviewed Publications
La fraternización con los árboles: la ecología queer de Alberto Nin Frías” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 59, no. 1, 2025, pp. 75-98
“Civilización sostenible y barbarismo extractivo: nuevas configuraciones de viejos binarismos (Argentina 1920-1930). Special Issue on Environmental Humanities, no. 202, 2024, pp. 37-52.
“Mitos y realidades de la inmigración europea en el paisaje rural de la literatura uruguaya (1920-1950)”. Latin American Literary Review, vol. 45 no. 90, 2018.
“Milonga del asimilado. Batllismo, nativismo y tolerancia en el Centenario”.¿Más allá de la tolerancia? Ciudadanía y diversidad en el Uruguay contemporáneo. Laura Gioscia (ed). Montevideo, Trilce, 2014, pp. 25-45.
“Identidad y cultura visual del Centenario: imágenes del gaucho en publicaciones conmemorativas de 1910 en Argentina.” Construir bicentenarios latinoamericanos en la era de la globalización. Margarita Gutman, Rita Molinos (eds). Observatory Latin America, New School. Buenos Aires: Infinito, 2012, pp. 423-438.
“Territorial Imagination and Visual Culture in the Centenary: The Construction of the National Landscape in Uruguay’s Centenary Book (1926).” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesía, vol. 20, no. 4, 2011, pp. 355-375.
“‘La esbeltez de los barcos que están casi en el aire’: El cenáculo y el barco como heterotopías del 900”. “Los raros uruguayos: nuevas miradas”. Valentina Litvan and Javier Uriarte (eds.). Cahiers de LI.RI.CO 5 (Université Paris 8), 2010, pp. 189-204.
“Representaciones de lo vernáculo en el primer Centenario de la independencia del Paraguay”. Narrativas del Centenario y Bicentenario de la independencia en Latinoamérica. Carla Giaudrone and Shelley Garrigan (eds.). Dossier Iberoamericana. América Latina, Portugal, España no. 39, 2010, pp. 177-195.
Narrativas del Centenario y Bicentenario de la independencia en Latinoamérica. Carla Giaudrone and Shelley Garrigan (eds.). Dossier Iberoamericana. América Latina, Portugal, España, no. 39, 2010, Iberoamericana-Vervuert.
“El gaucho en el ámbito iconográfico del Centenario uruguayo (1925-1930)”. Revista Hispánica Moderna, vol. 61, no.2, 2008, pp. 149-165.
“Nuevos sujetos en el espacio urbano de la escritura modernista rioplatense”. Hispania, vol. 91, no. 2, 2008, pp. 310-319.
La degeneración del Novecientos. Modernismo y modelos estético-sexuales de la cultura. Montevideo: Editorial Trilce, 2005. Honorary mention. Premio Anual de Literatura. Ministerio de Educación Cultura, Uruguay, 2007.
Herrera y Reissig, Julio. El pudor y la cachondez. Carla Giaudrone and Nilo Berriel edition, introduction, and notes. Montevideo: Arca, 1992
Teaching
Awards:
- Excellence in Online Teaching Award. Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion & Accessibility Category. Instructional Design Teaching and Learning with Technology. Lifelong Learning Center. Rutgers University, 2024
- Chancellor’s Award in Teaching Excellence, Rutgers University-Camden, 2023
Selected Courses:
- Spanish American Culture and Civilization. Open and Affordable Textbooks Award. Excellence in Online Teaching Award
- Environmental Stories in Latin American Cultures
- Narratives of the Centennial Celebrations of Latin American Independence
- Princesses and Perverts. Gender and Sexuality in Spanish American Modernismo
- Reading the Urban Experience in Spanish America
- Representing Identities in Latin America
- Spanish American Short Stories
- Modernismo and Modernity in Spanish America
- 20th-Century Literature of the Southern Cone
- Introduction to Latin American Studies
- Introduction to Latin American Literary Text
International Learning:
- Creation of a Microcredential for a Language Exchange in collaboration with Universidad Torcuato di Tella (Argentina) and Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay). This initiative provides students with formal recognition for their participation in structured language and cultural exchanges, fostering meaningful peer-to-peer international learning experiences.
- Multicultural Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality, Collaborative Online International Learning Rutgers University-Universidad de Guanajuato. Spring 2022
Digital Humanities Courses Created
Touring Latin American Landscapes. This course explores representations of landscapes in Latin American fiction, poetry, and visual culture, focusing on how landscape relates to identity. As a final project, the working group curates a virtual exhibit using the open-source platform Omeka, featuring selected textual and visual materials.
Networking Latin American Literature. The following courses use Scalar, a digital publishing platform that allows students to integrate media from various sources with their own writing in dynamic, interactive formats:
- Networking the Novel: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Women Writers of the Hispanic World
Courses for Global Studies and Learning Abroad Programs
- Global Studies Program co-founder and director (2018-2023)
- The Andean Culture of Peru: Legacies and Mysteries of the Incan Empire, Travel Seminar to Peru
- Cuba Libre: History, Society, Culture of a Unique Island Nation, Travel Seminar to Cuba
- Patagonia: The Cultural Experience of the End of the World. Travel Seminar to Argentina and Chile.
- Two to Tango. Cultural Aspects of the River Plate Region. Travel Seminar to Argentina and Uruguay.