Nohora Arrieta Fernández

Nohora Arrieta Fernández is a writer, researcher, and scholar. She is an Assistant Professor on Afro-Latin American studies at UCLA. Her current research focuses on the aesthetics and intellectual traditions of the African Diaspora in the Americas. She has published essays and articles on Latin American literature and visual arts, comics, and the Afro-Latin American Diaspora, and has collaborated with art magazines Contempory And, Artishock, and Terremoto. Her scholarly publications have appeared in Transition, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture in the United States, and in multiple journals in Brazil and Colombia. Her first co-translation project, Semantic of the World: the Poetry of Romulo Bustos Aguirre, was published by University of New Mexico Press in 2022. Her research has been supported by Fulbright, the Brazilian Studies Association, The American Council for Learned Societies, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She was the editor in chief of BLUE/AZUL, a reader on visual arts in the African Diaspora, and is co-founder of the art criticism collective Dual.