Overview
Waleska Solorzano is a PhD candidate in Latin American Studies with two graduate minors in LGBT Studies and Media Studies. Her cross-disciplinary research traverses questions of aesthetics, archival responsibilities, kinship, migration, and ontology. She works across Venezuelan studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, media arts, and comparative diaspora studies, to analyze how desires for belonging and the spatial dynamics of community-building proliferate within Venezuela and the diaspora through contemporary artistic practices and productions.
As a part of her dissertation project, Waleska is developing the Venesporan Artists Project. This digital platform serves as a directory of contemporary Venezuelan artists of Venezuelan descent from all over the world. In tandem, she works as an archivist and transcriber for the Todosomos archive in Cornell's Rare Manuscripts and Collections.
Waleska received her MA in Philosophy, Ethics, and Public Affairs, along with a CERG in Women and Gender Studies from George Mason University. Her written work has appeared in Chasqui and Intervenxions.