Yamile Ferreira, PhD

Research Interests:

Feminisms, Latin America, Women of Letters, Hemispheric Nineteenth Century, Education, Intellectual Networks, Female Press

Yamile Ferreira was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, although her family is originally from Brazil and she was raised in Montevideo, Uruguay. She lived in Montevideo most of her life until moving to St. Louis, Missouri, to pursue her doctoral degree. She is a first-generation scholar.

Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant for the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. She is co-teaching an Ampersand/Studiolab course “Knowing Through Objects: The Worlds of an Antique Chinese Wedding Bed” with professors Zhao Ma and Trevor Sangrey.

Her Ph.D. is in Hispanic Studies with a Certificate in Women Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St Louis. She holds a B.A. in Performing Arts from the Escuela Multidisciplinaria de Arte Dramático in Montevideo, Uruguay. She has published articles on feminist cinema, theatre, and performance in South America. Her dissertation, “Teaching Gender: Women of Letters, Schoolteachers, and Feminists in Latin America (1830-1920),” centers on Latin American women of letters in the history of education, analyzing their intellectual networks during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and their key role in the expansion of female education as a platform to enter the public sphere.

Yamile has administrative experience working as the Editorial Assistant of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. She was the Social Media Coordinator of the Spanish Program, managing the Twitter and Instagram accounts @WashUSpanish. Yamile has been the co-convener of the The Nineteenth Century in the Americas Reading Group sponsored by the Center of the Humanities and co-convener of Work-in-Progress: Graduate Students Colloquium by the Romance Languages and Literatures Department.