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Theresa Delgadillo is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she joined in 2019 as professor of English with a joint appointment in Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies. She currently serves as Director of the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies Program. Prior to her appointment at UW-Madison, Delgadillo was Professor of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing-Fiction from Arizona State University in 1995, and a B.A. in English with a Spanish minor from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1992.

Delgadillo's research specializations encompass Latinx and Chicanx literature and cultural production, including the interrelationships of African-descended Latinx and mestizx peoples, spiritual mestizaje, Chicana feminist decolonial frameworks, and Latinx placemaking in the U.S. Midwest. She founded the digital humanities project Mujeres Talk, which she moderated from 2010 to 2017. Her major publications include Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (University of Michigan Press, 2024), recipient of the MLA Prize in United States Latina/o and Latin American Literary and Cultural Criticism; Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative (Duke University Press, 2011); Latina Lives in Milwaukee (University of Illinois Press, 2015); and as co-editor, Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest (University of Illinois Press, 2022). Selected articles appear in Latino Studies, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, American Literary History, and American Quarterly. Awards include the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship (2022), Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Award for Teaching (2025), Brittingham Trust Award (2021), and 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title for her chapter “Spirituality” in Keywords for Latina/o Studies. She has held roles such as Chair of MALCS and delivered public lectures on Latinx photography and decoloniality.