Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Originally from the north of Brazil, Gabriela received her B.A. in Spanish from the University of Virginia, and her M.A in Hispanic Literatures at Indiana University, where she is currently a first year Ph.D. student. Her research focus on questions of neocolonialism, sexuality, and race in Latin America and the Caribbean; specifically, after United States emerging as an economic and political power in the region. Gabriela is doing her Ph.D. minor is Critical Race and Post-Colonial Studies in the Indiana University Department of American Studies.