Meet Dr. Lydia Gil

Lydia Gil, Ph.D.

Teaching Professor
Department of Spanish Language
Literary and Cultural Studies

Dr. Lydia Gil teaches in the Department of Spanish Language, Literary and Cultural Studies and is associated faculty of the Center for Judaic Studies and the Latinx Center @ the University of Denver. She received a Ph.D. in Spanish form the University of Texas at Austin; M.A. degrees in Comparative Literature and Spanish from the State University of New York in Buffalo; and a B.A. in French & West European Area Studies from American University in Washington, D.C. Her recent scholarship focuses on the memorialization of atrocity in the Southern Cone and the implications of memory, trauma, and cultural politics on literary testimony. Other areas of research are Jewish literature of Latin America and contemporary immigrant literature in the U.S. She is also an author of bilingual children’s books and over the years has mentored many elementary, middle and high school students to develop creative writing skills.