DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE

Nathalie Bouzaglo holds a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from New York University. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature, gender and sexuality studies, and queer theory.

Prof. Bouzaglo is the author of Ficción adulterada: Pasiones ilícitas del entresiglo venezolano (Fernando Coronil Award, 2016), which examines narratives of female adultery in late nineteenth-century cultural productions to reveal the contradictions and complexities involved in constructing a national culture. Her research also explores the intersections of modernismo, plagiarism, and the development of international copyright law, as well as the legacy of Oscar Wilde in the Latin American imaginary.

She is the co-editor of Drag Kings: An Archeology of Spectacular Masculinities in Latinx America (Metales Pesados, 2025). Using the Drag King show as a starting point and introducing the concept of spectacular masculinity—a hyperbolic masculinity that usurps the privileged and central space traditionally assigned to men's masculinity —the book proposes a systematic archaeology of the staging of multiple masculinities and their capacity to provoke crises within heterosexism.

She is currently writing a book titled The Corset: A Critical Anatomy of Fin-de-Siècle Latin America, which examines the paradoxical role of the corset in Latin America’s fin de siècle. While it shaped the desired waistline and dominated consumer culture, it was simultaneously lambasted by scientific experts as causing irreversible damage to internal organs, fueling debates about uterine health and the medicalization of women’s bodies. The project argues that the corset radically altered women’s anatomy, serving as both a physical and symbolic gateway to the most contested organ of the fin de siècle: the uterus.

Professor Bouzaglo arrived to Northwestern in 2006. She has taught courses on Citizenship and Urban Violence in Latin America; Cultural Borders/Border Cultures; and Home, Nostalgia, and Crimes of Passion. She currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.

Books

	Drag Kings: arqueología crítica de masculinidades espectaculares en Latinx America, coedited with Javier Guerrero, (Metales Pesados 2025)
	Ficción adulterada: Pasiones ilícitas del entresiglo venezolano. Buenos Aires: Editora Beatriz Viterbo, 2016 (Fernando Coronil Book Award)
	Debora, co-curated with Carlos Halaburda. Himapar, 2020 Podcast 0201 Nathalie Bouzaglo es fiel a la literatura latinoamericana de adulterio

	Malentendidos del siglo XIX, co-edited with Catalina Rodriguez. Santiago de Chile: Taller de letras 66, 2021
	The Legacy of Oscar Wilde in Latin American Literature and Culture, co-edited with Ana Rodriguez Navas, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2020

	Miradas efímeras. Cultura visual en el siglo XIX, co-edited with Cecilia Rodríguez. (Editorial Cuarto Propio 2018)
	Excesos del cuerpo: Ficciones de contagio y enfermedad en América Latina, co-edited with Javier Guerrero (Eterna Cadencia, 2009; reprint 2011; 2nd ed. 2012)

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

“Larga vida a Drag King” co-authored with Javier Guerrero. Drag Kings: Una arqueología de masculinidades espectaculares en Latinx America. Eds. Bouzaglo, N and Guerrero, J. Metales Pesados, 2024

“Marimachas en movimiento.” Drag Kings: Una arqueología de masculinidades espectaculares en Latinx America. Eds. Bouzaglo, N and Guerrero, J. Metales Pesados, 2024

 Un Anto de luz. Antonieta Sosa (1940-2024), un homenaje Lasa Forum. Vol 53. No. 1 (Forthcoming 2024)

 “The Marimacho Invasion: Sports, Masculine Femininity, and Fashion.” Women’s Studies, Volume 53, Issue 5 (2024) 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2024.2370366

“Escrituras en escena: Teresa de la Parra y el teatro de lo íntimo», Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire. Les Cahiers ALHIM 47 | 2024, Publicado el 04 junio 2024\. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/alhim/12558; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/11skn (peer-reviewed)

“Literary Crimes: Turn-of-the-Century Authorship” in The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Eds. Lugo-Ortiz, A., & Montaldo, G.  Routledge, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367808839

"Traducciones Lapidarias.” Perífrasis, Vol 13.25, 2022: 159–172.

“Sylvia Molloy, Venezolana” in CHUY. Revista de estudios literarios latinoamericanos, Vol 7, May 2021, Universidad Tres de Febrero. 

 “Tomás Michelena: Atrevimientos y desagravios del fin de siglo”, co-authored with Carlos Halaburda, Himpar Editores 2020.

“Los irreverentes plagios de Rafael Bolivar Coronado,” Taller de Letras 66, 2020: 116-124.

“Plagiarism and Authorship in Turn of the Century Venezuela.”  Journal of Comparative Literature 24.4, 2020:  405-417.

“Oscar Wilde’s Forgotten Legacy” (co-authored with Ana Rodriguez Navas.) Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2020: 321-329.

“Scathing Translations: Guillermo Valencia, Bernardo Arias Trujilllo, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2020: 341-353.