Biography

Maria Amelia Viteri is a transnational Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology at University of Maryland, College Park.  She’s the author of Desbordes:  Translating Racial, Ethnic, Sexual and Gender Identities across the Americas (SUNY Press, 2014) .  She’s the co-author of the GLQ Journal “Queer/Cuir Americas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable (2021, Duke University). Her work has critically addressed the heteronormative infrastructure of borders as mutually constitutive with the inequalities around gender, sexuality, social race, belonging, and migrant status.