Yajaira M. Padilla

PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS

Professor of English and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Her research centers on Central American cultural and literary studies and Central Americans in a U.S. Latino context. She is the author of Changing Women, Changing Nation: Female Agency, Nationhood, and Identity in Trans-Salvadoran Narratives (SUNY 2012), From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals: US Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-belonging (University of Texas Press 2022), as well several articles and book chapters.