Institution:
Faculty Chair, Committee on Ethnicity, Migration & Rights; Senior Lecturer in Peninsular and Transatlantic Film and Literature, Harvard University

Interests:
Migration and border studies; transatlantic cultural history and literature; Peninsular Spanish cultural studies; film and media studies; Mediterranean crossings; gender studies; digital humanities; narratives of identity, memory, forgetting, and exile; intersections between art and literature; global mobility; transnational cultural products

Description:
Raquel Vega‑Durán is Faculty Chair of the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration & Rights and a Senior Lecturer in Peninsular and Transatlantic Film and Literature at Harvard University. Her research explores migration and border studies, contemporary Spanish cultural history, film and media, Mediterranean crossings, gender, and narratives of identity, memory, and exile, with particular attention to how encounters with migrants reshape Spain’s self‑understanding within a broader European context. She is the author of Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain, which examines how Spain’s cultural identity is transformed through its engagements with migrants from Latin America and Africa, and she has published widely on Spanish literature, film, refugees, activism, and global mobility in edited volumes and journals.