María Teresa Vera Rojas (Caracas, Venezuela) is an Associate professor in the Department of Spanish, Modern, and Classical Languages at Universitat de les Illes Balears, where she teaches Spanish and Latin American literature in the Spanish language and literature degree program. She is also a researcher at ADHUC—Research Center Theory, Gender, Sexuality at the Universitat de Barcelona, and is currently the Chair of the Section on Venezuelan Studies of LASA (Latin American Studies Association).

She holds a PhD in Cultural and Gender Studies from the Universitat de Barcelona (2016) and a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Houston (Texas, USA, 2007). She received her degree in Literature from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Caracas, Venezuela) and a MA in Latin American Literature from the Universidad Simón Bolívar, (Caracas, Venezuela), she also holds a MA in Gender Studies from the Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain).  

Her interdisciplinary research focuses on gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, post/decolonial feminism, anti-racism, and cultural and literary studies, with a particular interest in contemporary Hispanic Caribbean, Venezuelan and Spanish literature and culture, as well as on the study of early twentieth-century Latinx culture, literature, and feminism in New York City.

She is currently part of the research teams for the projects “GRESEL-DH: Postcolonial debates in newspapers in Spanish from Asia, Spain and the Caribbean” (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades / Agencia Estatal de Investigación – PID2023-151280OB-C21 – 2024-2027). IP: María del Rocío Ortuño Casanova (UNED) and Juan Manuel Cigarrán Recuero (UNED), and “GIMA: Género, imagen y materialidad en la cultura literaria de la modernidad (1880s-1930s)” (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades / Agencia Estatal de Investigación – PID2022-137613NB-I00 – 2023-2027). IP: Isabel Clúa (Universidad de Sevilla) and Dra. Flavie Fouchard (Universidad de Sevilla).

In addition to book chapters and encyclopedia entries, she has published several articles on these subjects in journals such as Revista Iberoamericana, Cuadernos de Literatura, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat y CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, among others. She is the author of “‘Se conoce que usted es ‘Moderna’”. Lecturas de la mujer moderna en la colonia hispana de Nueva York (1920-1940) (Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2018 - Victoria Urbano Award 2020) and editor of Nuevas Subjetividades/Sexualidades Literarias (Egales, 2012). She has coedited New Perspectives on Hispanic Caribbean Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and was in charge of the compilation, introduction and edition of “El feminismo no es nuevo”: Las crónicas de Clotilde Betances Jaeger (Arte Público Press, 2020). She is the editor of the recently published volume Feminismos antirracistas: relecturas para el siglo XXI (Icaria, 2024).