Nicole Fadellin
Nicole Fadellin teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature and cultures. She specializes in 20th- and 21st- century Caribbean literature and visual culture, with a focus on infrastructural crisis in neocolonial settings. Her current book project explores the use of energy infrastructures as a metaphor for social power and a means for transforming society for revolutionary governments in Latin America.
Prior to joining Ursinus, Dr. Fadellin taught in the Honors College at Purdue University, and she has also worked as a public humanities scholar-practitioner in Peru. She served as co-curator for the digital platform Memoria Perú at the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, and from 2018-2022 she designed various courses and activities for the Casa de la Literatura Peruana. Dr. Fadellin brings these professional experiences into her courses by incorporating collaborative, public-facing projects, such as exhibit curation, game design, and self-publishing.
Department
Teaching
- Common Intellectual Experience
- Survey of Hispanic Cultures
Research Interests
- 20th and 21st-century Latin American literary and cultural studies
- US colonialism in Latin America
- Infrastructure Studies
- Speculative fiction
- Spanish for STEM
Recent Work
Book chapters:
“Infrastructure Studies and Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean.” In The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms. Eds. Guillermina De Ferrari and Mariano Siskind. Routledge. 2023.
“The Cuban Nuclear Dream: The Afterlives of the Project of the Century.” In The Social and Political Life of Infrastructure in Latin America. Eds. Jonathan Alderman and Geoff Goodwin. University of London Press. 2022.
Public Scholarship:
Escritoras peruanas de lo insólito. Antología de cuentos: siglos XX-XXI. Fadellin, Nicole, Saavedra, Johanna & Zavaleta, Kevin, Eds. Casa de la Literatura Peruana. 2023.
“Despertar un sentido de responsabilidad: Las denuncias de Dora Mayer contra la Cerro de Pasco Corporation” Benjamín Blass Rivarola & Nicole Fadellin. Libros & Ciencias: Revista de divulgación científica 4(2022).
Memoria Perú: Recorridos por el patrimonio cultural de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú. Roger Caceres & Nicole Fadellin, Curators. Biblioteca Nacional del Peru. 2020-2022.
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