Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
M.A in Literary Studies (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
B.A. in Education, (Universidad de Valladolid)
B.A in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Medical Humanities, Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature, Literature and Cinema, Literature and Music, Critical Theory
Year Entered Program: Fall 2024
M.A., Spanish, Middlebury College, Vermont, 2023.
B.A., Spanish, California State University, Channel Islands, 2022.
Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature, with particular interest in magical realism and the study of affect.
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
M.A., Spanish, Ohio University.
B.A., Humanidades y Filosofía, Universidad Mesoamericana de San Agustín, Yucatán, México.
Pedagogy, creative writing, literary translation, & language teaching/acquisition.
Poetry in its many forms, particularly in native Mexican languages. I have published over twenty titles mostly of poetry ( (lyric, satirical, and for children). I believe in a sense of community based on understanding and unconditional love. I also believe that poetry (and the arts) can be an instrument for that (for building community and understanding), but not always is.
Year Entered Program: Fall 2023
M.A., Spanish, University of California, Irvine, 2025.
B.A., University of California, Irvine, 2023.
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
M.A., Comunicación de la Ciencia y la Cultura, ITESO, México.
B.A., Letras Hispánicas, Universidad de Guadalajara, México,
Representations of violence in non-fiction narratives, particularly in contemporary Mexican Chronicles.
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
M.A. in Spanish, University of California, Irvine, 2023.
B.A. in Hispanic Literature, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.
Her work focuses on material poetics, the intersections between activism and literature, and women writers of the 20th and 21st century in Mexico. Along with her academic work, she also writes fiction and non-fiction exploring themes such as language, pain, and violence.
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
M.A., Spanish, California State University, Northridge, 2020.
M.A., Education, Universidad Adventista de Chile, 2016.
B.A., History, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 2010.
Latin American Chronicles, 20th Century Latin American literature, Narcoliterature, Narcoviolence and Feminist Literature in the Southern Cone.
Year Entered Program: Fall 2024
M.A., Spanish Language and Literature, San Diego State University, 2024
B.A. Spanish, Minor in Teaching English as a Second Language, San Diego State University 2022.
Women writers in the 20th and 21st century in Latin America with an emphasis in Mexico; Latin American feminist violence; Feminist theory.
Year Entered Program: Fall 2024
M.A., Hispanic Studies, Boston College, 2024.
B.A., Spanish, French and Italian, University of Rhode Island, 2015
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
M.A., Spanish, University of California, Irvine, 2025.
B.A. in Comparative Literature and International Political Economy, Fordham University, 2019.
Minors in Spanish and Philosophy.
Her research focuses on cultural memory in 20th century post-violent contexts in Colombia and Chile, and examines how literature and visual media reshape the past to fit the needs of the present.
Year Entered Program: Fall 2023
M.A., Spanish, California State University, Bakersfield, 2023.
B.A., Design & Spanish, University of California, Davis, 2016.
My research explores contemporary Latin American and Latinx literature, film, and visual culture through the lenses of queer/trans theory, and urban studies. I examine LGBTTQIA+ activisms and queer futurity as portrayed by artists, writers, and filmmakers from Mexico and Latinx communities in U.S.
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
M.A., Urban Education, Language & Culture, Loyola Marymount University, 2014.
B.A., History, Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, 2011.
Representations of addictions, particularly, alcoholism, intergenerational trauma, and healing practices in Mexican and Chicano literature and culture.
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
M.A., Spanish Language and Literature, San Diego State University, 2023
B.A., Spanish, Minor in Latin American Studies, San Diego State University, 2021
B.A., Communications, San Diego State University, 2021
20th-21st century Latin American literature (México and Argentina), Mexican Revolution, dictatorships, violence, pain, nationalism, critical theory, psychoanalysis.
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
M.A., Spanish, University of New Mexico, 2019
B.A., English Comparative & Literary Studies / Spanish Literary Studies, Occidental College, 2016.
Latin American literature and culture in the 20th and 21st century; Central American immigration; Post-colonial studies; Feminist theory
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
M.A., Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia, University.
B.A., Spanish with minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.
Their scholarly work focuses on the crisis of humanism and the subject in 20th-century Mexican poetry and the literary essay. In particular they study the exponents of the long-form poem: Gorostiza, Cuesta, and David Huerta. Theoretical concepts pertinent to their work involve Badiou’s coupling of eventality and the poem, as well Heidegger’s concern with the poem as a vehicle for the discovery of Being, and Derrida’s theory of the trace.