2025
VIVIANE MAHIEUX
Associate Professor
Spanish and Portuguese
School of Humanities
Viviane co-edited El affair moreno (Editorial Mansalva, 2020), a volume on Argentine chronicler and LGBTQ activist María Moreno, with Claudia Darrigrandi (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez) and Mariela Méndez (University of Richmond); and Tierras de nadie: en norte en la narrativa Mexicana contemporánea (Tierra Adentro, 2012) with Oswaldo Zavala (CUNY).
Her book, Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America: The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life was published in 2011 by the University of Texas Press. In 2009, she published a collection of the chronicles of Cube Bonifant, a Mexican woman journalist who began publishing in the 1920’s, entitled Una pequeña marquesa de Sade: Crónicas selectas 1921-1948. Her research focuses on Latin American and European avant-gardes, the city and urban theory, the genre of the chronicle in the 19th and 20th centuries, journalism and media theory.
JACOBO SEFAMÍ
Professor
Spanish and Portuguese
School of Humanities
Professor of Latin American literature at the University of California, Irvine, and Director of the Summer Spanish School at Middlebury College. Jacobo is member of the founding committee of the international association UC-Mexicanistas.
He has collaborated in multiple literary journals, including Letras Libres, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Nexos, Revista Iberoamericana, Encuentro, Casa del Tiempo, Vuelta, Literatura Mexicana, etc. His research focuses on Latin American poetry and Sephardic Jewish studies in Hispanic America.
FERNANDA HERNÁNDEZ PAREDES
PhD Candidate
Spanish and Portuguese
School of Humanities
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.
RAÚL ROMO
PhD Student
Spanish and Portuguese
School of Humanities
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Contemporary Mexican Literature and Film; LGBTTQIA+Activism; Latin American/Latinx Visual Culture; Queer Theory; Media studies.
MARCO ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ-CANO
PhD Student
Spanish and Portuguese
School of Humanities
RESEARCH INTERESTS
20th & 21st century Latin American literature (México & Argentina), Mexican Revolution, dictatorships, violence, pain, nationalism, critical theory, and psychoanalysis.
LANDON M. YAÑEZ
PhD Student
Spanish and Portuguese
School of Humanities
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FEDERICO MANFREDO DE PALMA
PhD Student
Spanish and Portuguese
School of Humanities
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