Spring 2025 Office Hours: Face to face (Coleman 1355) and virtual Office Hours:

Mondays, Wednesdays 4 - 5 pm. Thursdays 3-5pm. 

Latin American and Latinx Studies Office Hour:

Mondays 3-4 pm.

Please send email (vmlandrus@eiu.edu) to schedule an appointment.

Additional Office Hours by Appointment.

                     
Dr. Vanesa Carbonetti Landrus is Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Latinx Studies at Eastern Illinois University. She received her M.A and Ph.D. in Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (2007). Her research has been published in Revista Iberomaericana, in the book Retomando la palabra: Las pioneras del XIX en diálogo con la crítica contemporánea by Editorial Iberoamericana, and in ELADD, virtual collection of biographies and critical essays on Latin American Nineteenth Century Women Writers. Her book project La prensa femenina argentina del siglo XIX y la construcción de un imaginario nacional offers a critical analysis of women's periodical literature in Nineteenth Century Argentina. 

Research Interests

• Nineteenth-century Studies
• Race, Gender & Sexualities
• Latin American & latinx Literature
• Contemporary Studies
• Cultural Studies

Awards

• Outstanding Support for Latin American and Latinx Studies (2024).
• Achievement and Contribution Award (2017, 2019)
•  Study Abroad Faculty of the Year (2019)
• Research Sabbatical (2017)
• Interdisciplinary Center for Global Diversity Award (2010, 2013, 2015, 2019)

Affiliations

• Midwest Association for Latin American Studies, President 2022, Board Member 2019-present.
• Institute for Interdisciplany Collaborations at EIU, Counsil 2021-present.
• Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies at EIU, 2017-present.
• Center for Global Diversity at EIU 2010-2020.
• Center for the Humanities ar EIU, 2016-present.