Dr. Nhora Lucía Serrano is the Director of Academic Technology, Teaching, and Research Services at Hamilton College, where she leads a dedicated team focused on enhancing student-centered teaching, learning, and faculty research. She developed TECH Lab, a service designed to foster student innovation through technology and collaboration, and spearheaded the 2023 redesign of the library’s first floor, introducing a makerspace, innovative teaching classrooms, and production/privacy booths.
Dr. Serrano is actively engaged in the higher education technology community, serving on EDUCAUSE's Technology, Leadership, and Culture Advisory Committee and its Nominations and Leadership Development Committee. She co-authored the MLA Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship and chaired the 2021 LACOL "Play and Innovation"workshop. She was also part of the inaugural cohort of the Next Leadership Fellowship (2022-23).
With a background in Comparative Literature, digital humanities, and visual culture, Dr. Serrano is passionate about creating dynamic, collaborative learning environments that promote innovation and accessibility in today’s digital landscape. As a former humanities professor and scholar of Early Modern and Colonial Latin America, she views libraries—past and present—as vibrant spaces for collaboration, technology-driven creativity, and community engagement.
Dr. Serrano holds a BA in French from Amherst College, an MA in French and Art History from NYU, and a PhD in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her scholarly and public library work has garnered several prestigious awards, including a National Humanities Center grant, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum Scholarship, an NEH Summer Institute grant, and a Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship at MIT Press.
She is the editor of Immigrants and Comics (2021) and the curator of the 2024 exhibit "Depicting Mexico and Modernism: Gordo by Gus Arriola" at Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
In her spare time, Dr. Serrano enjoys painting with watercolors, refurbishing furniture, collecting books and comics, baking, gardening, and walking her two dachshunds.