Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Catedrático, Director, Instituto Nuevos Horizontes
Ph.D., Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

-Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award, 2025
-Obama Fellow, Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, 2022
            -Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Budapest, 2019
            -Fulbright Scholar, Ecuador, 2012

Latin American Studies; Decolonial Memory & Action; Technology & Thought; Diaspora / Migrant Creativity; Digitally-Mediated Medical Humanities; Interdisciplinary Humanities (STEAM); Caribbean Judaism; Translingual Writing & Intercultural Creativity; Critical University Studies; Cañar–Loja-Azuay, Kichwa; Massachusetts / Puerto Rican Studies; Ireland & Exile, 26 + 6.

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Commentaries:

• • Inside Higher Ed,  Times Higher Education,  Chronicle of Higher Education,  Public Books,  Los Angeles Review of Books,   University World News,  Literary Hub,  80grados,  Verdad,  Jacobin,  Tinta regada.

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Books:

• • Academic Imperialism. Provocations Books, under contract.
  • Decolonizing American Spanish. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.
  • After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism. New York: Routledge, 2018.
  • Paris in American Literatures. New York & London: Rowman, 2013.
  • In Paris or Paname. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011.

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Interviews:

• NPR, Should Spanish be a Domestic Language in US Higher Ed?.
• Warmis, Hemingway en el siglo XXI.
• La Vanguardia, Gabo, extranjero en Barcelona.

Lectures:

• University of Rhode Island, Sustaining Democracy.
• Oxford University, Rothermere Institute Lecture.
• Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, JG|U Lecture.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. -James Baldwin,Giovanni’s Room

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Cuenca, Ecuador

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