Andrés Mendieta
PhD Student in Spanish & Portuguese | GSS Cluster Fellow
Andrés Mendieta is a PhD student in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and a Mellon Cluster Fellow in Gender and Sexuality at Northwestern University. He holds a B.A in Communication Studies from the National University of La Plata (UNLP) and a M.A in Gender Studies from the National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) where he also teaches seminars in queer and trans* studies. During 2019 - 2020 he was an Andrew W. Mellon predoctoral fellow in the Critical Theory in the Global South Project at Northwestern University. He is a research member in "Trans.Arch: Archives in Transition” an international research project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Research.
His research focuses on trans* and queer theory, 19th century Latin American and archival studies.