Valentina Montero Roman is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, specializing in the study of race, gender, and narrative form from the twentieth century to today. Before work at UCI, she received her PhD from the University of Michigan and was a Frederick Donald Sober Postdoctoral Fellow.

She has published on topics like maximalism and Latinidad in Valeria Luiselli’s 2019 novel Lost Children Archive, narrative reliability in Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing, and slow storytelling and developmental logics in Jean Rhys’s stream of consciousness novels. Her work appears in two edited collections and in the journals Genre, Legacy, Modern Fiction Studies, and Studies in the Novel.

She teaches courses on Latinx, African American, and/or multiethnic literature, life writing, narrative theory, the modern girl, and literature and the mind. She is the organizer of the UCI Humanities Junior Faculty Co-Writing Group and the co-founder of the UCI Latinx Humanities Research Cluster. She is the recent recipient of two awards: the UCI Latine Excellence and Achievement Community Award for Outstanding Emerging Faculty Mentorship Award and the UCI Humanities Center Senate Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.