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Nicole Bonino is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Italian (Academic General Faculty) in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. An international scholar from Italy, she has collaborated as Research Fellow with Columbia University and the University of Manchester. She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from the University of Virginia (2020) and two M.A.s and a B.A. in Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Cultural Studies. Her research and instructional activities center on the portrayal of global migratory movements in literature and visual arts. Through her current book project, titled “Voices in Movement: Migratory and Diasporic Artivism in Argentina,” she delves into the transformative power of "artivism" in driving social change and reclaiming the narratives of migratory and diasporic communities in contemporary Latin America.
Current research areas:
Latin American Migration and Diaspora
Recent scholarly activity:
Research Fellow at Columbia University and University of Manchester
Recent publications:
Bonino, Nicole. “Trazando caminos: Retratística afroargentina como archivo de memoria e instrumento de visibilización” (Forthcoming in Perspectivas Afro. Revista de investigaciones en estudios afrolatinoamericanos y afrocaribeños, Fall 2023)
Bonino, Nicole. “The Socio-Environmental Implications of Informality in Antonio Berni’s Xilo-Collage ‘Inundación en el barrio de Juanito’” (Forthcoming in Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies)
Bonino, Nicole and Hiromi Kaneda. “Diversity and Inclusion in the Afro-Argentine Film Panorama: An Interview with Haitian-Argentinian Filmmaker and Producer Wisny Dorce” (Forthcoming in Framework. The Journal of Cinema and Media)
Bonino, Nicole. “Más allá del conflicto: matices ecocríticos en ‘A la deriva’ por Horacio Quiroga.”
Chasqui. Revista de literatura latinoamericana, 51.1 (2022): 135-152
Bonino, Nicole. “Hibridismo literario y naturalismo criollo: el caso de Antonio Argerich.” El Cid, 31 (2021): 7-13
Bonino, Nicole. “Villa Miseria también es América: Resistance and Resilience in Argentinian Slums During the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Spanish and Portuguese Review, 6 (2020): 9-21
Bonino, Nicole. “Génova-Buenos Aires: paisaje oceánico y migración en Sull’Oceano (1889) de Edmondo De Amicis.” Exégesis, 3 (2020): 93-107
Bonino, Nicole. “Colombia no tiene quien la cure: el discurso médico en El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1958-61) de Gabriel García Márquez.” Hispanófila. Ensayos de literatura, 184 (2018): 69-83
Bonino, Nicole. “Migración y ecocrítica: paisajes urbanos en la literatura ítalo-argentina.” In La cosa nostra: estudios lingüístico-literarios sobre la inmigración italiana en Argentina, edited by Augusto Lorenzino. Buenos Aires: Editorial Dunken (2019): 11-29
Bonino, Nicole, and Stella Mattioli. “Keeping up with Social Changes in Second Language Acquisition.” Drive-Thru Pedagogy, Studio for Teaching and Learning Innovation, March 2022
Bonino, Nicole. “Covid-19 and the City: Visual Art, Social Media, and Performance in a Locked-down Buenos Aires.” Global COVIDiaries, May 2020
Bonino, Nicole. “Coastal Futures Conservatory Open Lab: Bridging Science, Art, and Community.” Environmental Humanities at UVA, September 2019
Forthcoming research:
“Voices in Movement: Migratory and Diasporic Artivism in Argentina” (In-progress book project that explores the transformative power of artivism in fostering social change and reclaiming the narratives of migratory and diasporic communities in contemporary Argentina)
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