Juliana Nalerio is a poet, scholar, and professor.

Juliana Nalerio's research explores the legacy of literature in history and history in literature, and the moral and political implications of both. She reads and teaches in critical race theory, literature, history, visual arts, and performance as cultural text.

Her research examines cultural and historical memory, centering Atlantic history and the Americas from the 19th century until the present; modernity; coloniality; and questions of how “we got here?”

Juliana earned her PhD from Stanford University's program in Modern Thought and Literature and prior to this held a Predoctoral Fellowship (FPI-MINECO) with the Universities of Valladolid and Salamanca. Juliana was a visiting scholar at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and taught in the history department of the City University of New York as a CUNY-Stanford Fellow. At Stanford, Juliana held EDGE and CRC Teaching Race Fellowships.

Her essays, autofiction, and book reviews have appeared in Miscelánea, Catalan Review, Remezcla, The New Americanist, Camino Real, and El Punt Avui, among others.

Juliana is a product of public arts schools in Florida as a Florida Bright Futures Student.