Verónica Ríos Quesada
Lecturer
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Verónica Ríos Quesada’s research on Central American literature is united by a focus on the formation of social imaginaries and cultural production. She is interested in the conditions of production, reception and literary analysis as a comprehensive approach to literary historiography. Her theoretical approaches include cultural, race, memory, ethnicity and gender studies, and she favors interdisciplinary, transnational and comparative methodologies. Her current research focuses on the construction of indigeneity in 19th century Central American literature and how non-indigenous writers attempt to deconstruct it in contemporary literature. Ríos Quesada earned a masters in Latin American literature and a B.A. in Spanish philology from the Universidad de Costa Rica. She was an assistant professor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica and won a Fulbright-LASPAU scholarship to pursue her doctoral studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2013. Prior to joining UNH, she taught at the University of Costa Rica. At UNH, she teaches Review of Spanish and Intermediate Spanish.