Research

Throughout her academic career, Yamile has been interested in the different and nuanced aspects of gender and the women’s movement from a diachronically perspective, which has been a focal point of her research. From analysis of Bolivian anarcho-feminist’s performers to playwrights depicting troubled intrafamilial violence, gender studies have always been a theoretical framework in which to support her analysis.

During her graduate studies, Yamile has been interested in recovering and analyzing the work of female writers with an emphasis on their impact on the cultural field as well as the rhetoric devices female and marginalized authors deployed to make their voices heard.

In her dissertation, Yamile centers Latin American women of letters in the history of education, analyzing their intellectual networks during the nineteenth century, and their key role in the expansion of female education as a platform to enter the public sphere.

Recent Publications

“Mariquita Sánchez como corresponsal: los costos reproductivos de la guerra” in Revista Páginas, Dossier Guerras y mujeres latinoamericanas del siglo XIX edited by Vanesa Miseres.

“Los derechos de la mujer como derechos humanos: el aporte latinoamericano a un feminismo global”. Book Review of Feminism for the Americas by Katherine Marino. In Meridional. Revista Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos.

“Mary Mann and Sarmiento’s American Teachers: Labor and Hemispheric Femininity Inside the School” at the 2023 MLA Convention in San Francisco.

“Teatralidades populares y sujetos vulnerables: pobreza y proxenetismo en El patio de la Torcaza de Carlos Maggi” at the 2019 LASA Southern Cone Symposium in Buenos Aires.

Recent Conference Presentations

Conference Organization

Co-organized with Sara Hernández two Conferences with the Nineteenth Century in the Americas Reading Group, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis. First the Conference “South to Freedom” by Prof. Alice Baumgartner and the Conference “Observation, Stillness, Deviation” by Prof. Javier Uriarte.

Co-organized with Rodrigo Viqueira the conference “The Strike in Latin American Cinema” by Prof. Sarah Wells for the Projecting Latin American Cinema Reading Group, sponsored by the Center of the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis.

Co-organized with Soledad Mocchi-Radichi the panel “Teatralidades populares y subjetividades (in)visibles en el Río de la Plata” for the Latin American Studies Association, III Symposium of Southern Cone Studies in Buenos Aires.

Service to the Profession

Co-convener with Franzi Finkenstein the Professionalization Workshops sponsored by Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Washington University in St Louis (2021)

Public Facing Work

Yamile was interviewed by Lucas Reynoso, member of the editorial team of LatAm Dialogues Podcast on an episode about reproductive rights in Latin America.

Social Media Coordinator

Yamile has experience working as social media coordinator of diverse projects.

She has been the social media coordinator for the Spanish Program at Washington University in St. Louis since February 2020.

In 2022-2023, she was the Graduate Student Assistant of The Divided City, An Urban Humanities Initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation and Washington University in St. Louis. One of her main tasks was to manage the social media accounts and website of the project.