Visiting Scholars
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NOTICE:
Due to a transition in technology systems at The University of Texas at Austin, the processing of visiting scholar applications is taking longer than normal. Please submit your application to us with as much advance notice as possible, preferably at least 3 months in advance if you do not need visa assistance and 4-6 months in advance if you need visa assistance. Thank you for your patience with this process and we apologize for any inconvenience.
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LLILAS welcomes visiting scholars who visit campus either by faculty invitation or on an independent basis.
Visiting Resource Professors
Visiting Resource Professors (VRPs) are invited by UT Latin Americanist faculty members to lecture for one to two weeks in either undergraduate or graduate classes. Information for UT faculty on this program is available here under Hosting Visiting Academics.
Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow Programs
Due to the outstanding Benson Latin American Collection and the large and distinguished Latin Americanist faculty affiliated with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), many scholars choose to spend sabbatical or other research leave at The University of Texas at Austin. A limited number of research fellowships are available through Becas LLILAS Benson.
For more information on Visiting Scholar Programs, contact LLILAS_VisitorsProgram@austin.utexas.edu
Current and Recent Visiting Researchers
Nancy LaGreca, PhD
2025–2026 Research Fellow
Nancy LaGreca is professor of Spanish at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, TX, and Affiliate Research Fellow at LLILAS for the 2025–2026 academic year. Her publications explore how intellectuals of the turn of the 19th century sought to expand definitions of selfhood in the face of strong nationalist discourses of ideal citizenship. She is the author of Rewriting Womanhood: Early Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in The Latin American Novel, 1887-1903 (Penn State UP, 2009) and Erotic Mysticism: Subversion and Transcendence in Latin American Modernismo (University of North Carolina Press, 2016). She is working on a manuscript tentatively titled “Dawn of the New Woman: Latin American Women’s Narrative of Modernism,” which posits how the movement created space to imagine the modern woman in Latin America.
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