Graduate Students - PhD

Qiyan Chen

Email Address: qic031@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2024

Research Interests:

Minor Literature and Cinema; Gender and Ethnicity; Sinophone and Tibetan Studies; Global Cultural and Technological Flows; Body, Space, and Ecology; Media Historiography and Philosophy; Translation and Transmedia; The Aesthetics and Politics of Music.

Highlights:

• Awardee of the Yingjin Zhang Fellowship in 2024.
  

Academic Background:

• M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
• B.S. in Biological Science, Peking University.
• B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University.

Cristina Dinu

Email Address: cdinu@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2024

Biography:

Born and raised in Romania, a small Eastern European country with a rich history and sensibility, my curiosity about the world led me to study foreign languages and cultures but also to travel and explore the world. One of my goals is to become a teacher and share my love of literature with others.

Research Interests:

East West Intertextual and Intercultural Relations; Classical, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature; Medieval, Renaissance and Modern English Literature; Film, Theatre/Drama Studies; Trauma, Post-dictatorship, Memory and Post-memory Studies; myths, supernatural folklore.

Publications:

• “The Narrative Motif of the Ghost in Classical Chinese Literature”, International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, No.1, Vol.9, March 2022 pp. 1-8.  LINK 
• “The Fallen Women of Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd and of The Limehouse Golem directed by Juan Carlos Medina”, Journal of Student Research in Languages and Literatures, No.10, 2021, pp. 4 - 7.  LINK 
• “A Comparative Study of the Ghost Literary Motif in Snow in Midsummer by Guan Hanqing and Hamlet by Shakespeare”, Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, No. 1 Vol. 5, June 2021, pp. 125 - 134, Article ID: 2096-4374(2021)01-0125-10.

Academic Background:

• M.A. in East Asian Studies, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 2022
• B.A. in Chinese and English Philology, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 2020

Catherine Nina Evarkiou

Alexandra Feldman

Email Address: apfeldman@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2024

Biography:

Alexandra Feldman was born in Los Angeles, California. Her research focuses on new forms of online cultural exchange, translation, and interaction between East Asian and Western digital literatures.

Research Interests:

Sinophone literature and culture, popular fiction, digital literature, reader-response criticism, queer studies, fantasy and the fantastical.

Academic Background:

• M.A., Yenching Academy at Peking University, 2024
• B.A. in Political Economy, UC Berkeley, 2022
  

Ying Guo

Melina Jung

Samuel Kim

Jasmine (Yueming) Li

Email Address: yul282@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2023

Biography:

Jasmine (Yueming) Li is a Ph.D. student in the Literature Department at University of California, San Diego. Her research interests focus on contemporary Chinese theatre and performance art. Her broader interests include performance theories and contemporary East Asian literature and media studies.

Research Interests:

Chinese theatre and performance art, performance theories, contemporary East Asian literature and media studies

Publications:

• Li, Jasmine Yueming. “Reinvigorating Reality through Materiality and Theatricality: A Rethinking of Science Fiction through Li Jianjun’s World on a Wire (2021).” In Theatre, Performance and the Fantastic, Volume 1: Stages and Scripts, edited by Farnell, Ian. London: Bloomsbury Publishing (Methuen Drama). (forthcoming in 2026)
• Li, Jasmine Yueming. “Understanding Reality Through Science Fiction and Digitalization: The Hybrid Theatrical Space in Sun Xiaoxing’s Rhinoceros (2020).” Asian Theatre Journal. 41.2, 2024, p. 385-410.  LINK 

Academic Background:

• M.A. in Bilingual Bicultural Education, Columbia University, 2023
• B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Nankai University, 2021

Caleb Mertz-Vega

Email Address: cmertzvega@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2021

Biography:

I used to be a restaurant manager for Emeril Lagasse in Pennsylvania but moved to San Diego and attended San Diego City College earning an Associates in English and Spanish and served as VP for our chapter of Phi Theta Kappa. I then received double Bachelors from UC Berkeley in English and Spanish.

Research Interests:

Latin American Literature, Contemporary American Literature, Northern Andean Region literatures, LGTBQ+ literature, Queer Theory, Affect Theory, reader response, Gender studies, psychology and literature, religion and culture.

Publications:

• Mertz-Vega, Caleb A. “Apetito «contra natura»: Celestina and Her Same-Sex Desires.” Celestinesca, vol. 46, Dec. 2022, pp. 97–117.  LINK 

Highlights:

• Speculative Environmental Futures Mellon Grant, Jan. 2024
• 2018 Phi Theta Kappa All-California Academic Team (First Team), Apr. 2 2018
• Leora Dumlao Honors Scholarship – SDCC (2018)
• Peace Studies Scholarship – SDCC (2017, 2018)
• Judith Keller Marx Krumholz Scholarship – San Diego Foundation (2018)

Academic Background:

• B.A. in English, UC Berkeley, 2021
• B.A. in Spanish, UC Berkeley, 2021
• A.A. in English & Spanish, San Diego City College, 2018

Makenzie Read

Yomira Varela Guadiana

Dingding Wang

Email Address: diw004@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2020

Research Interests:

Animal studies; eco-criticism; eco-media

Publications:

• "Dreaming Fish, Becoming Fish: Animating Modern Mythology and Zhuangzian Philosophy in the Fantasy Film Big Fish & Begonia" Journal of Chinese Film Studies, 2024.  LINK
• “Mapping Chinese Science Fiction and Science Writing as World Literature”, Chinese Literature and Thought Today, 54:3-4, 46-51, 2023.  LINK 
• Translation: Nathaniel Isaacson, Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction. (Jiangsu People’s: 2024).
• Translation: N. Katherine Hayles, Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious. Proofread. (Jiangsu People’s: 2024).
• Translation: Jason Goodwin, The Gunpowder Gardens: Travels through India and China in Search of Tea. (Jiangsu People’s, 2019).

Academic Background:

• Non-degree, Inter-University Center, Japan, 2022-23
• M.A. in Critical Asian Humanities, Duke University, 2019
• B.A. in English Language and Literature, Wuhan University, 2017
  

Yuchen Yan

Email Address: y9yan@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2021

Alice Zheng

Email Address: q9zheng@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2023

Bahar Abdi

Ngoc Linh Bui

Manuel Carrion Lira

Email Address: macarrio@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2019

Jing Chen

Bias Collins

Email Address: bcollins@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2018

Monique Dixon

Tatum Howey

Email Address: thowey@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2021

Nilufar Karimi

Siqi Li

Ziyang Li

Email Address: zil042@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2020

Biography:

Literature, film & artwork.

Research Interests:

Sinophone Southeast Asia; Asian American and Asian diaspora; body, religion, and sensual geography; gender and queer studies

Academic Background:

• M.A. in Critical Asian Humanities, Duke University
• B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Zhejiang University

Jessica Lizarraga

Email Address: jelizarraga@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2020

Wentao Ma

Email Address: w4ma@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2020

Bianca Negrete Coba

Email Address: bnegrete@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2020

Jessica Silbaugh-Cowdin

Email Address: jsilbaug@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2019

Yi Sun

Email Address: yis020@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2019

Biography:

Born in 1991 in Beijing, came to the United States in 2016. Completed a MA in East Asian Studies at Duke University in 2018, and currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Literature at UCSD.

Research Interests:

I am interested in Animal Studies and modern/contemporary Chinese literatures and cultures. The dissertation that I am currently working on focuses on how the non-verbal communication between humans and animals redefines the boundary of human language.

Academic Background:

• M.A. in East Asian Studies, Duke University, 2018
• M.A. in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Soochow University, 2016
• B.A. in Tourism Management, Soochow University, 2013

Yichen Tan

Reem Hazboun Taşyakan

Email Address: rehazbou@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2019

Biography:

Reem Hazboun Taşyakan is an author, scholar, and educator who has been living in San Diego since 2011. She is originally from New York but has called Arizona and Syria home, too. She'll likely always feel a pull toward the tall trees, plentiful waters, and changing seasons of the American Northeast.

https://www.reemhazbountasyakan.com/ 

Research Interests:

My dissertation examines the ways that form and content converge in 21st century Arab American novels to center the experiences of Arabs and Muslims in America while tackling sociopolitical issues relevant both within and beyond those communities.

Publications:

• "The Arab American Polyphonic Novel and its Indictment of the Post-9/11 Political Agenda," Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 2​.  LINK
  
• "Broken Waves," Eclectica, Vol. 27, No. 1.  LINK
• "Najiyah," Kweli, Spring/Summer 2024 Issue.  LINK
• "Retreat," Other People, Collection 4: Refraction.  LINK
• "Gather & Scatter," The Tiny Mag, Issue 13.  LINK
• "Salt Away" + "thanksgiving," Grist, No. 17.

Academic Background:

• M.A. in Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona
• B.A. in Creative Writing, University of Arizona

Chad Valdez

Evelyn Vasquez

Email Address: evvasque@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2019

Biography:

I am from East LA, Lincoln Heights (Clifton St., Ave 28, and Ave 26) and worked on Whittier Blvd. and Arizona Ave. throughout my childhood up to an adult. Triqua for life. I rep sopes from King Taco all day every day. Rap is my harmony. Cumbias are my jams.

Research Interests:

I currently research architectural depictions of poor housing in American novels (mid19th and early 20th century) and policies that impact how and where characters and real people live. Previous research included analyzing comic book panels and tenement drawings of Eisner, Harrington, Outcault.

Highlights:

• Travel Award for MELUS Conference, 2024
• Institute of Arts and Humanities Fellowship for LARB, 2024
• CSS Honorable Mention for the Hillary Chute Award, 2023
• UC Humanities Consortium Graduate Society of Fellows Dissertation Award, 2023
• CalRBS Scholarship, 2023
• Interdisciplinary Research Award 2022

Academic Background:

• B.A. in English (Literature, Criticism, and Theory Emphasis), University of California, Davis, 2016
• A.A in English Literature, Humanities, and Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pasadena City College, 2013

Constance Von Igel De Mello

Email Address: cvonigeldemello@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2023

Biography:

I'm Constance (she/her), a scholar and writer from São Paulo, Brazil, where I was born and raised. I lived in Germany during my undergrad and then moved to the U.S. for grad school in Orange County, where I did my MA/MFA.

Research Interests:

I'm interested in articulating the formulations of race and gender in the Americas, in particular as it pertains to national imaginaries and Latinidad more broadly. In particular, I interrogate how exclusions of Black and gendered bodies facilitate citizenship belonging.

Publications:

• "Wonderbread" (poetry chapbook), Ghost City Press, 2024.  LINK
• "Swallow the Pit" (poetry chapbook), Bottlecap Press, 2022.  LINK
  

Highlights:

• Presenting at PAMLA in November on "20th and 21st Century Poetry," analyzing Kate Rushin's "The Black Back-Ups" and its interventions into the poetic form.
• Participating at a roundtable discussion for Renee Hudson's "Latinx Revolutionary Horizons" at ASA.

Academic Background:

• M.A. in English and MFA in Creative Writing, Chapman University, 2023
• B.A. in Cultural History & Theory and Gender Studies, Humboldt University, 2020

Chenfeng Wang

Email Address: chw058@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2020

Biography: 

PhD candidate in Chinese cinema and media studies.

Research Interests:

My research focuses on contemporary transnational Chinese cinema, exploring themes of migration, home, and identity in response to globalization and media technological developments.

Publications:

• “From Home to Homeland: Re-Imagining Chinese Diaspora in Recent Science Fiction Films.” Journal of Chinese Film Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2024, pp. 411–26.
• “Displacement and Alienation: Reading Xiao Hong’s Life of Exile through Ann Hui’s The Golden Era.” The Cinema of Ann Hui: Aesthetics, Politics, and Philosophy, Zhaoyu Zhu and Weiting Fan ed., Bloomsbury, in press.
• “Transmedia, Intertext, and Genre Crossing: Lou Ye and the Sixth Generation’s Commercial and Historical Turn.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, under review.
• “Wuhan, Before and After the Pandemic: An Ecocritical Reading of Shengze Zhu’s A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces.” Spectator, Fall 2023, pp. 31-40.
• Experience Western Civilization (Authors Dennis Sherman & Joyce Salisbury). Chinese Edition, Beijing: Peking University Press, in press.
• History and Memory (Author Geoffrey Cubitt). Chinese Edition, Nanjing: Yilin Press, 2021.

Academic Background:

• M.A. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, 2020
• M.A. in History, Tsinghua University, 2018
• B.A. in Chinese Literature, 2015

Shiya Zhang

Chengfan Zhou

Camellia Azzi

Email Address: cazzi@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2024

Biography:

Camellia Azzi is a PhD student and teaching assistant in the Department of Literature at UC San Diego. Her research interests are shaped by her multilingual upbringing, and in her free time, she enjoys travel photography and finds writing inspiration through the lens.

Research Interests:

20th-/21st-century multiethnic and postcolonial literature; transnational literature; postcolonial theory; decoloniality; Francophone literature of the Maghreb; language and identity; translation; diaspora studies; gender studies.

Academic Background:

• M.A. in Literature, Miami University
  B.A. in English Literature & Writing, Ohio University

Joanmarie Bañez

Email Address: jbanez@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2019

Biography:

Joanmarie Bañez is a literature PhD candidate with a specialization in critical gender studies. She researches 20th- and 21st-century multiethnic literatures of the United States. Specifically, her work examines Asian American diasporas and queer kinship in the U.S. South.

Research Interests:

Contemporary multiethnic literatures of the U.S.; Asian American literature; transpacific studies; critical refugee studies; critical adoption studies; critical care work studies; kinship; family and the novel; aesthetics; queer theory; affect theory

Publications:

• “Good Ghosts and Other Southern Specters.” Our Southern Accents: Asian American Voices in the U.S. South. Edited by Thảo L. Hà and Roy Vũ. Rutgers University Press (accepted, in progress).
• “Sister, Outsider or, Reflections on My Mother.” Spring 2025 Queer South Issue of Southern Cultures (accepted, in progress).
• Review of Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong. Southern Postcolonial Special Issue (SoPoCo) of The Georgia Review 71, no. 1 (2022): 332-335.  LINK
• Review of The Disappearing Act by Sara Pirkle Hughes. South Atlantic Review 84, nos. 2-3 (2019): 283-285.  LINK

Highlights:

• UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship (2024-2025)
• UCSD Literature Department Dissertation Year Fellowship (2023-2024)
• UCSD Summer Graduate Teaching Scholar (2022)
• James K. Binder Fellowship (2019-2021)

Academic Background:

• M.A. in English, Georgia State University, 2019
• B.A. in English, summa cum laude, Georgia State University, 2017

Nolan Dannels

Oscar Garcia

Email Address: o4garcia@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2021

Biography:

Oscar is from Fresno, California. Outside of work, you'll likely find him sipping on an iced latte, spending time with loved ones, checking out the San Diego scenery, or all of the above.

Research Interests:

Chicanx cultural politics, Latinx literature, LGTBQ+ literature, critical race theory, women of color feminisms, queer of color critique, urban/rural landscapes

Highlights:

• University of California, San Diego Literature Department nomination for Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) Master's Thesis Award 2024
• University of California, San Diego Diversity Fellowship 2023-2024
• University of California, San Diego Literature Department Fellowship 2021-2022

Academic Background:

• M.A. in Literature, University of California, San Diego, 2024
• B.A. in English with a minor in Journalism, University of California, Irvine, 2021
• B.A. in Spanish, University of California, Irvine 2021
  

Aimee Jurado

Email Address: ajurado@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2020

Biography:

Aimee is from Southern California and studies food, family, war, persistence, and trauma across 20th-21st century multiethnic literature.

Research Interests:

20th-21st century Asian American literature, food studies, trauma studies, persistence literature, and Post WWII multiethnic literature

Academic Background:

• M.A., University of California, San Diego
• B.A., California State University, Fullerton

Samuel Lyons

Kellie Miller

Email Address: knmiller@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2019

Biography:

Kellie is an English Literature major with a specialization in British and Victorian Literature. She is passionate about teaching English and has instructed a variety of writing and Literature courses.

Research Interests:

Research interests include the study of gender and agency in Victorian Literature, British Literature, Gothic Horror, Sci-fi, Magic Realism, American Literature, and Popular Culture.

Publications:

• “Representations of Identity and Agency in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, No. 18, Vol. 1, Spring 2022.  LINK

Academic Background:

• M.A. in English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University, 2018
• B.A. in English and Textual Studies, Syracuse University, 2016
  

Matthew Moore

Barışcan Ozkuzey

Maya Richards

Sutirtho Roy

Email Address: s8roy@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2024

Biography:

I am interested in the various ways in which storytelling and language can help in conservation of non-human animals by generating media awareness. To that extent, I hope to study how speculative media can pose an alternative, imaginary space to intraspecies and interspecies dynamics of power.

Research Interests:

I am interested in animal studies and ecocriticism, and am interested to explore how post-colonial research can help us realize the various kinds of intraspecies and interspecies relationships. I am also interested in linguistics, speculative fiction, creative writing, and graphic narratives.

Publications:

• Nature Strikes Back: A Post-human Gaze into Eco-critical Narratives of James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’; Published by Nesir Journal of Literary Studies.  LINK
• Can the Non-human Subaltern Speak? Addressing Injustice through Parakeets, Penguins and Blue Macaws: Published by ‘Theorizing Literary Animals’ (special issue of Studia Philologia).  LINK
• “Life, uh, finds a Way”: reading Post-human Agency in the EcoGothic Spaces of ‘Jurassic Park’: Published by The Aeternum Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies.  LINK
• Reading the Animal beyond Anthropocentric Paradigms of Power: A Post-anthropocentric Study of ‘Beastars’ as “Un-Disneyfied” Zootopia by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  LINK
• “A Dog is Man’s Temporary Friend: An Ethical Critique of Human-Pet Relationships in India Post-Pandemic” published by National Institute of Agartala, as part of conference proceedings in “Emerging Trends in Post Pandemic Literary and Cultural Studies” by AuthorsPress.  LINK
• Jumbo: A Film Review published in The Association for Children’s Literature in South Asia.  LINK
• Reading Woody as a Figure of Freedom: A Post-anthropocentric Analysis of Toy Story and its Allegorical Slave Narrative published in book ‘Figures of Freedom in the Anthropocene’.  LINK
• The 'Child'/ 'Animal' Bond in Flora and Ulysses, Free Willy and The Water Horse: Envisioning Sites of Non-human Resistance by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Verlag, a part of the series ‘Culture, Environment, Society: Humanities and Beyond’ (an imprint of BRILL).  LINK
• Exotic Prehistory or Relevant Science? Sukumar Roy’s Post-human Subversion of Victorian Travel Literature by Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorian Literature) – Forthcoming publication
• Seeing through the Other’s Gaze: A Post-anthropocentric Study of Animal Masks in Indian Theatre and Dance by Routledge (as part of the series Revealing Post-human Encounters in Performance) – Forthcoming publication
• The Post-human Ontology of Dark Eco-Fiction: Defying Anthropo-denial in Watership Down, The Plague Dogs and Padak by Routledge (as part of the series ‘Heterotopia’) – Forthcoming Publication
• The Desire to tame the Fantastic: A Post-human Critique of Dragons in Fiction published in the series ‘Dragons in Literature, Film and Pop Culture’ – Forthcoming publication
• Nature, Non-humans and More-than-human Agency: Ecolinguistic Engagements through Non-Western Lenses in The Adventures of ‘Professor Shonku’ published in the book ‘Ecocritical Engagements in Select Indian Children’s Literature’ (Bloomsbury India) – Forthcoming publication
• How Conspiracy (Fringe) Theories challenge Anthropocentric Anxieties: A Post-human Critique of Humanism through the Lens of Inside Job published in book ‘Lizards, Illuminatis and Deepfakes: Conspiracy Theories at Play in Popular Culture’ – Forthcoming publication
  

Highlights:

• National winner of the M Krishnan Memorial Award for Nature Writing 2024
• Best dissertation at Post-graduate Diploma in Comparative Mythology
• Invited to speak at National Institute of Technology, Agartala
• State winner of essay contest on evils of drug abuse
• Presented at NEMLA etc

Academic Background:

• Post-graduate Diploma in Comparative Mythology, University of Mumbai, 2023
• B.A. in English Honours, The Bhawanipur Education Society (affiliated to Calcutta University), 2020
  

Camille Uglow

Email Address: cuglow@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2022

Biography: 

Outside of research, Camille enjoys spending time with family and friends, going to the beach, cooking, traveling, and painting. Having grown up in SoCal, the ocean serves as the main inspiration for her oil paintings. Her love for the ocean and environment informs her studies as well.

Research Interests:

Early Modern English and French drama, Early Modern English and French literature, ecocriticism, dramaturgy, performance studies, Renaissance studies, eco-Shakespeare, environmental humanities

Publications:

• “On Overthinking.” Alchemy, Issue 22, August 2023 (creative translation)  LINK

Highlights:

• Conference Presentation: “Shakespeare’s Blue Globe: An Ecocritical Examination of A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Writing Environments: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air Symposium, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego, June 2023

Academic Background:

• B.A. in Literature (General Literature, Intensive), University of California, Santa Cruz, 2021

Vyxz Vasquez

Email Address: lmvasquez@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2021

Phuong Vuong

Email Address: pvuong@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2020

Biography:

Phuong T. Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet and writer from Oakland. She is a PhD candidate in Literature with a specialization in Critical Gender Studies whose research explores Asian American feminist and queer creative refusal of recognition and legibility as a decolonial tool.

https://www.phuongthaovuong.com/ 

Research Interests:

Critical race theory, gender studies, queer theory, Asian American studies, decolonial/Indigenous studies, and 20th and 21st century ethnic US literatures

Highlights:

• Phuong is the author of two poetry collections including A Plucked Zither (Red Hen Press, 2023), which won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award 2021.
• She has publications in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Asian American Writers' Workshop: The Margins, and elsewhere.

Academic Background:

• M.A. in Literature, University of California, San Diego, 2023
• M.F.A. in Creative Writing, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2020
• B.A. in Black Studies, Amherst College, 2009

Yingjie Fei

Email Address: yifei@ucsd.edu 
Year of Entry: Fall 2020

Veronica Perez Garcia

Carolina Ramirez Moreno

Email Address: cramirezmoreno@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2021

Biography:

Carolina Ramirez Moreno is a first generation PhD student in Literature and the Critical Gender Specialization. Carolina grew up in el Estado de Mexico and during her teenage years moved to Arvin, California, a farming community in the Central Valley. She considers both places home.

Ana Villalpando

Email Address: anvillalpando@ucsd.edu
Year of Entry: Fall 2023

Biography:

Ana Villalpando is a queer fronteriza researcher and artist born in Tijuana. Her pedagogical approach has been shaped by her career in public libraries, binational teaching experience and community-focused programming. As an artist, she explores the porous frontier between materiality and discourse

https://www.anniedetijuana.com/

Research Interests

Latin American women writers; 20th and 21st century Latin American literature; biopolitics and necropolitics; critical gender studies, 19th century feminist periodicals

Publications:

• Garcia Villalpando, Ana Karen, translator. David Lamelas: A Life of Their Own. Edited by María José Herrera and Kristina Newhouse, Getty Publications, 2017  LINK
• Garcia Villalpando, Ana Karen. “Untitled.” Bones - Journal for Contemporary Haiku, 31 July 2015. P. 16.  LINK
• Herrán Paz, María Evangelina, et al. “Narrative Review of Scales Assessing Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents.” Medwave, vol. 14, no. 01, Medwave Estudios Limitada, Jan. 2014, pp. e5887–e5887.  LINK

Highlights:

• 2023-2024 Literature Diversity Fellowship
• "¿Cuándo fue la última vez que le leyeron un cuento?" PCI Webinar, May 8, 2024
• "La ficción del progreso: Distancia de Rescate como relato del maldesarrollo" at XIV Graduate Student Conference, Hispanic Studies, UCR, April 25, 2024

Academic Background:

• M.A. in Social and Cultural Analysis of Education, California State University, Long Beach, 2009
• B.A. in Philosophy, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2014