Evelyn Saavedra Autry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Rutgers University
(Overview)

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, University of Georgia       
Women’s Studies Certificate, University of Georgia
M.A.T. in Foreign Languages, Middle Tennessee State University
B.A. in Hispanic Literature, Middle Tennessee State University   


BOOK MANUSCRIPTS

Race, Gender, and Violence in Narratives of the Andes: An Archive of Coloniality and Indigenous Resurgence from Colonial Times to the Present (In progress).

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS 
Indigenous feminisms; decolonial thought; war studies; memory and testimonial studies; gender studies; film studies; popular art; colonial, indigenista, and contemporary Peruvian literature; Latin American & Latinx studies.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS  
Rutgers University                                                                      Fall 2020 – Present

Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024)

    SAS Postdoctoral Associate (2021-2022)

    American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellow (2020-2021)

University of Georgia                                                             

Department of Romance Languages, Fall 2015 – Spring 2020                                                        

    Instructor of Record                                   

Middle Tennessee State University                                                         
Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,  June 2012 – May 2015 
Lecturer of Spanish, curriculum developer for online courses, and advisor

Fisk University                                                                                       
Department of Modern Foreign Languages,  August 2013 – May 2014
Instructor of Spanish  

Tennessee Technological University                                                       
Department of Foreign Languages, August 2012 – May 2013  
Instructor of Spanish

Middle Tennessee State University                                                        
Teaching and Research Assistant, August 2010 – May 2012

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles:

Autry Saavedra, Evelyn. “Insurgent Memories of War: Self-representation by Female ex-Combatants in Peru.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism Journal, Spring 2025.

Autry Saavedra, Evelyn. “Redoble por Rancas, Liberalism, and Mining Extractivism Policies in Twentieth-Century Peru,” 2024. Under review.

Autry Saavedra, Evelyn. “Singing Feminist Ch’ixi+Art Music from Las Rajaduras: Renata Flores, Isqun, and The Fractured Locus.” Feminist Formations, 2023.

Autry Saavedra, Evelyn. “El pobre más rico: heterogeneidad y transculturación en el teatro quechua colonial.” Lamar Journal of the Humanities, vol. 44, no. 2, 2020, pp. 5-20.

Autry Saavedra, Evelyn. “Construcción de identidades femeninas andinas en la narrativa peruana contemporánea del conflicto armado interno peruano (1980–2000).” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes, vol. 44, no. 3, 2019, pp. 281-302.

Autry Saavedra, Evelyn. “Testimonio, ficción y las batallas por las memorias en Insensatez de Horacio Castellano Moya.” Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature & Culture, vol. 4, no. 2, 2019, pp. 1-18.

Autry Saavedra, Evelyn. “Reescribiendo la historia de la conquista española: mitos fundacionales en los Comentarios reales de los Incas.” Revista Caracol, vol. 17, no. 1, 2019, pp. 563-579.

Autry Saavedra, Evelyn. “Magda Portal: procesos de modernización, vanguardismo y compromiso.” Entre Caníbales: Revista de Literatura, vol. 2, no. 9, 2018, pp. 29-48.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Conference Papers

  • “Transit Memories as Haunting: Andean Indigenous Women’s Led Activism and Protest in the Peruvian Diaspora.” Memory Studies Association. Lima, Peru. June 2024.

  • “Mobilizing across National Lines: Andean Women’s Indigenous-Led Activism and Protest in Peru and the United States.” National Women's Studies Association Conference. Baltimore, MD.  October 2023.

  • “Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict through Mama Quilla's Arpilleras.” Southeastern American Studies Association Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. September 2023.

  • “Insurgent Memories of War: Self-representation by Female ex-Combatants in Peru.” International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Vancouver, Canada. May 2023.

  • “Indigenous Herstories of Resurgence: Mama Quilla and Peru’s Cultural Productions of Armed Struggle.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Buffalo, NY. March 2023.

  • “Aproximaciones al conflicto interno peruano a través de la literatura y artes visuales.” Univerity of Georgia. September 2022.  

  • “Keynote Address and Dialogue with Elizabeth Jelin.” Latin American Works of Memory: Rethinking Transnational and Local Concepts and Devices. April 2022.

  • “Andean Memories of Shining Path Women in Peruvian Popular Art: The Retablos of Edilberto Jimenez.” Latin American Works of Memory: Rethinking Transnational and Local Concepts and Devices. April 2022.

  • “Music Autohistoria-teoria: Chañan Cori Coca and Rita Puma Justo through the Lens of a Nepantlera.” Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference: CARE, University of South Dakota, March 2022.

  • “Singing from las Rajaduras: Renata Flores, Isqun, and the Fractured Locus.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Maryland, March 2022.

  • ”Andean Memories of Shining Path Women in Peruvian Popular Art: The Retablos of Edilberto Jimenez.” Latin American Works of Memory: Rethinking Transnational and Local Concepts and Devices. 2022. 

  • “Incarcerated Memories from the Margins: The Politics of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Peru.” Memory Studies Association (MSA). Warsaw, Poland. July 2021.

  • “Narrativa, violación y género: El caso de La Sangre de la aurora de Claudia Salazar Jiménez.” International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Vancouver, Canada. May  2021.  

  • “Andean Female Identities during Times of War in Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jimenez and Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, GA. November 2019.

  • “Narrativas de la disponibilidad y violencia de género: la figura femenina andina en el indigenismo peruano.” International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Boston, MA. May 2019. 

  • “Contemporary Literary Productions of the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict: Construction of feminine identities inBlood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez.” The Institute for Women’s Studies. University of Georgia, March 2019.

  •  “The Politics of Reconciliation: Gender Violence, Memory and Trauma during the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict.”The Recognition, Reparation, Reconciliation: The Light and Shadow of Historical Trauma Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa. December 2018.

  • “Memoria y testimonio de la violencia de género en el Perú del conflicto armado interno.” XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, Spain. May 2018. 

  • “Women in Higher Education in Times of Anxiety: Advising Graduate Students, Research, Lessons Learned or Wished We Had Learned.” The Institute for Women’s Studies. University of Georgia, Athens, GA. February 2017. 

  • “Redoble por Rancas, liberalismo y políticas de extractivismo minero en el Perú del siglo XX.” Crossroads: Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference. University of Georgia, Athens, GA. February 2017. 

  • “Female Corporeality and Gender Violence: Rewriting the Female Body in Contemporary Peruvian Fictions.” Franklin College of Arts and Sciences University of Georgia, Athens, GA. November 2016

  • “Indianismo, indigenismo y el problema del indio: ¿cómo peruanizar al indio?” Crossroads:  Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference. University of Georgia, Athens, GA. February 2016.


    Invited Talks 

  • “Arpilleras of Hope: Memory, Archives, and Indigenous Women’s Histories of Resurgence.” Emory University, Atlanta, GA. February 2024.

  • “Singing Feminist Ch’ixi+Art Music: Andean Rhythms, Hip-hop, and Indigenous Youth in Contemporary Latin America.” University of Georgia, Athens, GA. March 2024.

  • “Feminist Critical Analysis: Perspectives on Pacifism – Old and New.” Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik. May 2023.

  • Keynote Address in Dialogue with Elizabeth Jelin. Latin American Works of Memory: Rethinking Transnational and Local Concepts and Devices. Athens, Ga. April 2022.

  • “A Lens through Coloniality: Andean Women’s Identity Formation in Peru’s Cultural Productions of Armed Struggle (1980-2000)”. New York University, New York City, NY. February 2022.  

  • “Retablo: Making the Sodomite in Contemporary Narratives of the Andes”. University of Georgia, Athens, GA. April 2022.   

  • “Incarcerated Memories from the Margins: The Politics of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Peru.” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. April 2021. 

  • “Representation of Contemporary Andean Masculinities in Latin America Cinema.” University of Georgia, Athens, GA. November 2020.  

  •  “The Production of Female Indigeneity in Peruvian Narratives: A Study of Gender Violence, Indigenismo, and Literature of Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict.”William & Mary College, Williamsburg, VA. February 2020. 

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

Franklin Visiting Scholar, 2024
Recipient of the 2023 Feminist Formations/NWSA Paper Award, 2023

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Race, Racism, and Inequality, 2022-2024

Faculty Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis,2022-2023

Excellence in Research Award in the Humanities & Fine Arts, 2021
University of Georgia award recognizing the outstanding scholarship of one former graduate student each year, 2021

ACLS Emerging Voices Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Rutgers University               
Post-Doctoral Associate at the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2020  

University of Georgia Outstanding Teaching Award                                                          
Nomination for demonstrating superior teaching skills, 2020

University of Georgia Dissertation Completion Award                                       
Highly competitive fellowship, 2019-2020

University of Georgia Summer Doctoral Research Fellowship                                           
Highly competitive fellowship, 2019

Dolores Artau Scholarship                                                                                                
Awarded to top three Ph.D. candidates annually, 2019

University of Georgia Dean’s Award for Arts & Humanities                                              
Archival research in Peru, 2018

Nina Salant Hellerstein Professional Development Award                                      
Awarded on a competitive basis to faculty and graduate students, 2018-2019

University of Georgia Graduate Studies Fund                                                         
Travel grants to attend national and international academic conferences, 2017-2019 

Tinker Field Research Award                                                                                              
Archival research in Peru, 2016

Middle Tennessee State University, Diversity Scholarship                                  
Scholarship based on merit, 2010-2012  


UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Rutgers University, 2020 – present

 Book Discussant. Space-Time Colonialism Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements by Juliana Hu Pegues. Spring 2023.

Organizer. CLAS Andean Studies Working Group. Fall 2022-Present.

Panel Commentator. “An Afternoon with Rutgers Graduate Students in Indigenous Studies.” Fall 2022.

Organizer and moderator. Lecture: “Andean Women’s Art and Activism in New Jersey and New York” Rutgers University—Newark. Fall 2022. 

Advisor. SAS Major & Minor Fair. Fall 2022.

Member. 2021–22 SAS OUE Faculty Learning Communities: Creating Opportunities for Under-resourced and Post-traditional-students. Fall 2021-Spring 2022.

Participant: SAS Division of Humanities Communities for Postdocs. Fall 2021-Present.       

Participant. Global Racial Justice Networking. Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. September 2021.

Committee member. 2021 ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Associate. Fall 2021.

Organizer. Lecture by historian Aasif Bulbulia. Spring 2021.

Participant. Feminist lab to support faculty in communicating their research. Organized by Dr.Brittney Cooper. April 2021.

Co-organizer. Lecture by Dr. Jillian Hernandez. Spring 2021.

Organizer. Lecture by visual artist and activist Jorge Miyagui. Spring 2021.

 

Member of M.A. Thesis and Practicum committees

 Alexandra Singh. “In the Name of Resources: How Companies & Organizations Utilize Top-Down Tools to Implement a “Feminist” Change.” Rutgers University. Fall 2022.

Adriana Schwarz. “Feminist Media: Disrupting the Normalization of Gender-Based Violence.” Rutgers University. Fall 2022.

Sadie Ronga-Rubin. In progress. Rutgers University. Spring 2023.

Gaeun Kim. In progress. Rutgers University. Fall 2023.