Education
- M.A. Spanish Literature, University of California, Los Angeles (2019)
- B.A. Spanish, University of California, Los Angeles (2016)
Research
I’m interested in XIX and early-mid XX century Mexican literature. I’m specifically interested in rural narratives within folklore, folktales, and rural literary production in Western Mexico during the Cristero War period. I especially love horror, macabre, and paranormal folktales and novels in relation to rurality. I’m also interested in how sexuality and gender is explored through rural environments in literature. I want to focus my research on rural communities in Jalisco, Mexico and, more generally, Western Mexico.
Publications
- “Masculinidad, antisemitismo y nación en María de Jorge Isaacs”. Mester, 47(1), 2018.
Presentations
- “Traumas en los campos de Jalisco: Las mujeres de Rulfo en Pedro Páramo”. Lecture. Literature in Historical Context. UCLA. February 10, 2021. Selected presentation.
- “La raíz en que emana: Federico García Lorca”, Invited Guest Lecture, Literary Masterpieces of Spain, CSULB, November 24, 2020. Selected presentation.
- “¡Con qué Mambelle, Mambelle, oh!” Lydia Cabrera y los orígenes afrocubanos en Cuentos negros de Cuba. Latin American Studies Association. Guadalajara, Mexico. May 13, 2020. Selected presentation.
- “Los traumas del llano: La guerra cristera en El llano en llamas de Juan Rulfo”. Symposium Presentation. Symposium on Trauma, Memory, and Justice in Central American and Mexican Culture. UCLA. March 18, 2018