Nicole Eitzen Delgado
Dr. Nicole Eitzen Delgado– from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico–is a scholar of Latinx literary and cultural studies, nineteenth century American literature, and the literatures of the Americas. Her dissertation, Captivity Narratives Unbound: Mexican, Mexican American, and Yaqui Becomings of the Latinx Nineteenth Century, argues that captivity narratives helped produced Latinx subjects as racially discrete individuals, even while the factual condition of nineteenth century captivity forced individuals of Latin American descent into ambiguous relation with other racialized communities. In an expansion of the captivity narrative genre, Captivity Narratives Unbound focuses on factual and imaginative accounts of nineteenth century captivity in the US Southwest, where, contrary to what the plethora of Anglo captivity scholarship indicates, the vast majority of captives were Indigenous of Mexican and Mexican American origin.
Eitzen Delgado earned her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University in 2020, and her M.A. in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College in 2015. Prior to arriving at Harvard, she was a postdoctoral associate in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University, and served as the inaugural graduate working group coordinator for the Latinx Project at New York University.
Eitzen Delgado earned her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University in 2020, and her M.A. in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College in 2015. Prior to arriving at Harvard, she was a postdoctoral associate in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University, and served as the inaugural graduate working group coordinator for the Latinx Project at New York University.