Dr. Liz Moreno-Chuquen
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature
Liz Moreno-Chuquen is an assistant professor at Xavier University in the Department of Classics and Modern Languages, where she teaches Spanish Language and Latin American literature and culture. Before joining Xavier University, she was an assistant professor of Global Studies and Languages at Idaho State University. Moreno-Chuquen was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. She specializes in Afro-Latin American Literature and Visual Culture. Her research examines the depiction of minoritized populations and racialized geographies in literature, cinema, photography, and museum exhibitions. She primarily focuses on how racial ideologies play a crucial role in the politics of representation of racialized women and geographies in Southern Cone and Colombia.
Moreno-Chuquen has created and taught undergraduate and graduate courses ranging from Advanced Composition, Afro-Latinx and Afro-Latin American Cultural Production, Critical Theory, Latin American Women Writers, and Survey of Latin American Cinema and Literature. She has extensive experience mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, with a particular focus on Latinx, non-traditional, and first-generation college students.