Valeria Grinberg Pla is a cultural critic and literary scholar. She is a professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA.

My research interest revolves around the interventions of film and literature in the public sphere and the epistemological force of cultural productions, from my dissertation on Argentina's national identity (Eva Perón. Cuerpo, género, nación, EUCR, 2012) to my more recent work on the labors of memory (Memory Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Handbook, Brill-De Gruyter, forthcoming) and on the poetics of movement as resistance to both patriarchal and colonial/modern impositions ("Locuaces y lenguaraces: migrantes del Sur Global en las ficciones de Najat El Hachmi y Fatma Aydemir", Revista Iberoamericana, 2026).

Transnational, transdisciplinary, horizontal collectives have always been my academic home, such as the editorial board of  Istmo. Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos, the VyRAL (Violence and Representation in Latin America) Network and the Red TransCaribe.

Joining KITLV as a visiting fellow allows me to further expand multidisciplinary collaborations with scholar-activist communities working on the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and the Netherlands in connection to my current research project on the role of feminist Caribbean writers in reshaping transnational and transregional identities that resist Eurocentric and patriarchal frameworks of belonging. Drawing on theorists like Ochy Curiel and María Lugones, the project frames the literary output of Zee Edgell (Belize) and Astrid Roemer (Suriname) as decolonial feminist interventions that reassert a Caribbean relational identity beyond traditional nationalist or Western feminist categories. The comparison is intentional: both Roemer and Edgell are central figures in their respective national literatures. However, their writing challenges patriarchal and Eurocentric perspectives, inquiring instead about the possibility of community and belonging grounded in transnational solidarity and racial and gender justice. By reading their novels together, I  aim to start a conversation about the entanglement between Belize and Suriname as postcolonial Caribbean nations.