Iani Moreno is an associate professor of Spanish at Suffolk University in Boston. Her interests include contemporary Latin American theatre, US-Mexico Border Studies, Brazilian Studies, Spanish and Portuguese language and literature, and contemporary Latin American cinema and music. Her publications discuss contemporary Latin American theatre and U.S.-Mexico Border dramaturgy. She has attended numerous conferences at the national and international level. Her book Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing was published in 2015 and reprinted in 2017. She has directed university productions of contemporary Latin American plays and also translated numerous dramatic works written by Latin American dramatists such as Hugo Salcedo, Carlos Canales, and Edeberto Galindo. Her latest translations, We Women (2020) and Miss Esther (2022) both by Hugo Salcedo, were published by Universidad Iberoamericana UP and Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas. She grew up in El Salvador and the United States and lived abroad in Brazil. She has traveled extensively in Latin America and Spain. In 2005 she was selected by Rotary International to be Ambassador of Goodwill and Understanding in Brazil.
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