Gabriela McEvoy

Gabriela McEvoy is originally from Lima, Peru, and lives in Annville, Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD. In Latin American Literature from the University of California, San Diego (United States). She is a Spanish professor at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania. She is the vice president of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS). Her specialization is the study of European immigration to Latin America, especially Irish immigrants to Peru in the nineteenth century. She is the...See more

Gabriela McEvoy is originally from Lima, Peru, and lives in Annville, Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD. In Latin American Literature from the University of California, San Diego (United States). She is a Spanish professor at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania. She is the vice president of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS). Her specialization is the study of European immigration to Latin America, especially Irish immigrants to Peru in the nineteenth century. She is the author of the Spanish version of The Invisible Experience. Irish Immigrants in Peru (2018) and Palimpsest: Short stories of Irish in Peru (2020). She is also the co-author of the three-volume Spanish textbook Raíces. Una aproximación intercultural a la lengua española. Additionally, she has contributed a chapter to the book Transnational Migration, Diasporas and Political Action (2022), edited by María Eugenia Cruset and Latin America and the Internationalisation of the Irish Revolution (2024) edited by Laura P. Z. Izarra. See less