Profile
Nicole Eitzen Delgado–from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico–is a teacher/scholar of Latinx literary and cultural studies, multiethnic American literature, nineteenth century literature, feminist literature and theory, and the literatures of the Americas. She earned her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University in 2020 and her M.A. in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College in 2015. From 2020-2023, she held postdoctoral appointments at the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, and the program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University. While at NYU, she further served as the inaugural graduate working group coordinator for the Latinx Project. Eitzen Delgado is currently working on her first monograph on captivity narratives of the Latinx nineteenth century. This project theorizes the racial becoming of Latinx subjects in the United States and Mexico through an examination of practices and narratives of nineteenth century Mexican, Mexican American, and Yaqui captivity. Looking at factual accounts and fictive re-imaginings, she argues that captivity narratives helped produced Latinx subjects as racially-discrete individuals, even while the factual condition of nineteenth century captivity forced individuals of Latin American descent into ambiguous relation with other racialized communities.