Veronica Cora-Castillo

I presented on Ana Lydia Vega’s novella *El baúl de Miss Florence*, a work that draws directly from the overlooked colonial history of Arroyo, Puerto Rico. Vega’s narrative revives local memory and collective trauma that are absent from the island’s official curricula — stories that I, too, never encountered in my own schooling. My talk highlighted how the novella challenges the silences and omissions in Puerto Rico’s colonially-shaped educational system, and how literature can function as a counter-archive to reclaim erased histories. Through Vega’s text, I explored the power of storytelling to resist historical erasure and to recover the complex legacies that formal education often fails to address.

Moderated a panel at the North Carolina Conference on Latin American
Studies titled “Corporeal Constructions: The Making of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Ibero-Atlantic”. February 17-18th, 2023.

This event brings together academic colleagues from across the country with a specialism in early modern Spanish theatre alongside translators, directors, performers, and actors with an interest in Spanish language theatre. At the heart of the event will be a performance-as-research stage reading/premiere of the entremés Los mirones/The Gawkers.