Education

  • Ph.D. Candidate (Fall 2020), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
  • Spanish Literature (degree projected June 2023)
    • Graduate Certificate (Spring 2020), Urban Humanities Initiative (UHI).
  • M.A. (2019), University of California, Davis (UCD). Spanish and Latin American Literature
  • B.A. (2016) University of California, Davis (UCD). International Relations, Spanish (double degree)

Research

20th and 21th Century Peninsular and Mexican literature and cultural productions including film, photography, and urban art. I focus on the immigration discourse of Spain and Mexico as modern host countries through literature and digital approaches to analyze the transformed and evolutionary mechanisms with which visual narratives explore the dialectic of time and space, assimilation, and acculturation as well as identity and nationhood.

Articles

  • “Mujer Migrante Memorial” (in progress) Story Map and e-Codex Digital Archive in collaboration with Maite Zubiurre/Filomena Cruz, Xiuwen Qi, Miranda Hirujo-Rincón, Eliza Franklin, and Maha Benhachmi. (June 2021).
  • “Reading the Writing on the Wall: A Palimpsestic Reading of Urban Cultural Representation” e-Codex Digital Archives in collaboration with Clayton McKee and Artin Sahakian. (June 2020).
  • La casa para un futuro incierto, e-Codex translation and analysis of Tijuana and Los Angeles in collaboration with Clayton Mckee and Artin Sahakian. (June 2020).

Dissertation

(De)construction and (Re)construction of the Other through two case studies: Lavapiés (Madrid, Spain) and Little Haití (Tijuana, Mexico) – In progress, 2023

Courses

Winter Quarter 2022: SPAN 2 Elementary Spanish

Fall Quarter 2021: SPAN 042 Iberian Cultures

Discussion sections 1C: English and 1D: Spanish

Winter Quarter 2021: SPAN 2 Elementary Spanish

Spring Quarter 2021: SPAN 3 Elementary Spanish

Spring Quarter 2021: DGT-H 299 Special Topics in Digital Humanities

Summer Session 1: SPAN 3 Elementary Spanish

Fall Quarter 2020: SPAN 1 Elementary Spanish

Presentations

  • Urban Humanities Initiative’s Digital Humanities Annual Conference. Presented: “Mujer Memorial Memorial” Installation and Performance in “The Wall that Gives/El muro que da” Venice, CA. June 2021
  • Urban Humanities Mellon Research Summer Conference. Presented: “Mapping Lavapiés”. UCLA. July 2020
  • Urban Humanities Initiative and Luskin School of Public Affairs’ End of the Year Conference. Presented: “Reading the Writing on the Wall: A Palimpsestic Reading of Urban Cultural Representation”. UCLA. June 2020
  • School of Architecture and Urban Planning Annual Conference. Presented “A Fractured Core: The Downtown(s) of Los Angeles and the Opportunity for Commoning”. UCLA. December 2019
  • XXVIII Congreso de la Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades. Presented “Madres, identidades y dicotomías”. University of Illinois at Chicago. September 2018
  • 14th Annual Samuel Armistead Colloquium: Grassroots Approaches to Interdisciplinary Scholarship. Presented “La desmitificación de la maternidad a través de la visión del Club de Malasmadres”. University of California, Davis. October 2018

Publications

  • “Mujer Migrante Memorial” (in progress) Story Map and e-Codex Digital Archive in collaboration with Maite Zubiurre/Filomena Cruz, Xiuwen Qi, Miranda Hirujo-Rincón, Eliza Franklin, and Maha Benhachmi. June 2021
  • “Reading the Writing on the Wall: A Palimpsestic Reading of Urban Cultural Representation” e-Codex Digital Archives in collaboration with Clayton McKee and Artin Sahakian. June 2020
  • La casa para un futuro incierto, e-Codex translation and analysis of Tijuana and Los Angeles in collaboration with Clayton Mckee and Artin Sahakian. June 2020