Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas


Areas of Study: Department of English Language and Literature Program in Creative Writing
Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the College
Biography

Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is the author of Drown Sever Sing from Anomalous press and Don’t Come Back, from Mad Creek Books, as well as the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology The Great American Essay. Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation work has been featured in various journals including The Bellingham ReviewThe Chicago ReviewFourth GenreBrevityPoets & Writers and the Sunday Rumpus, among others. She’s been the recipient of the Best of the Net award and the Iron Horse Review’sDiscovered Voices award, she has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a Rona Jaffe fellow.  

Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas has advised graduate and undergraduate projects, several of which are now books and published works, ranging from lyrical explorations of war and revolution, narrative manuscript confronting disability and sexual assault, to experimental essays about food, culture, country and sexuality. 

Current and Recent Courses
CRWR 12148 Intro to Genres: Speculative Women
ENGL 29700 Reading Course
CRWR 17017 Fundamentals in Creative Writing: Haunted Craft, the Art of the Spectral Metaphor
CRWR 29400 Thesis/Major Projects: Nonfiction
GNSE 15012 GNSE in World Civ III: Women Thinking Evil, Witchcraft, Sex and Literature in the Western World
CRWR 12136 Reading as a Writer: Adaptation as Form
CRWR 24036 Literary Nonfiction Workshop II: The Confessional Essay