Research & Presentations
RESEARCH
Dissertation: La corrupción y la violencia en México a través de producciones culturales contemporáneas [Mexico’s Violence and Corruption in Contemporary Cultural Production]
Director: Miguel A. Cabañas
My thesis analyzes the representations of violence and corruption in contemporary Mexican cultural productions. In my first chapter I analyze the role of state violence in literary works about the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968. The next chapter is about the continuity of state violence, oppression towards students and the broad development of drug trafficking in Mexico in the 1970s. The third chapter analyzes the censorship of the narcocorrido (drug ballad) and the disqualification or cultural hegemony imposed by the Mexican Government. In my last chapter, I analyze the satirical representations of the Mexican democracy in Luis Estrada’s movie trilogy.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Representaciones de Hegemonía y Exclusión Social, Física y Simbólica En La Película La Zona (2017) de Rodrigo Plá.” World Languages and Cultures in the Public Sphere: Selected Proceedings of the 25th Southeast Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Film, BrownWalker Press, 2024, pp. 39–48.
“Del corrido al narcocorrido: algunos aspectos de la evolución y de los efectos culturales de la mitificación y apoteosis del tráfico de narcóticos en la poesía popular cantada mexicana.” Aula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana, vol. 7, 2015, pp. 1-39.
Book Reviews
“Reseña de libro: Partera de la historia: Violencia en literatura, performance y medios audiovisuales en Latinoamérica. Eds. Sandoval Leon, Osvaldo y Chrystian Zegarra.” Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades, vol. 51.1 (2025). Forthcoming.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
1.“El que no tranza, no avanza: Participación y denuncia de la corrupción en México a través del corrupcionario, canciones y dichos populares mexicanos.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC) 2024. Hosted by East Tennessee State University. November 7-9, 2024. Forthcoming.
2.“Navigating through the Digital Revolution: Embracing Technological Advancements and Tools for Future Learning in the Humanities.” 95th South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA). Hosted at the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center. November 9-11, 2023.
3. “Una semana solos: Una juventud (des)protegida por un enclave.” 73rd Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC). Hosted by Shenandoah University. October 12-14, 2023.
4. “Representaciones de exclusión y hegemonía física, social, y simbólica en los ámbitos públicos y privados en La zona (2007)” 25th Southeast Conference for Languages, Literatures, and Film (SCFLLF). Hosted by Western Carolina University. March 09-10, 2023.
5. “Alegorías con ritmo norteño: Representaciones del sistema político mexicano en los corridos.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC). Hosted by University of North Carolina at Greensboro. October 20-22, 2022.
6. “Camuflando la corrupción: Los mecanismos de la violencia en La dictadura perfecta (2014) de Luis Estrada.” Cine-Lit 9 Conference. The University of Oregon, Portland State University, and Oregon State University. Portland, Oregon. March 8-12, 2019.
7. “What Happens to a Dream Deferred: Film Discussion.” 3rd Biennial Conference Latina/o Studies Association. “Latinx Studies Now.” Washington, DC. July 11-15, 2018.
8. “Transgressions of physical, social and symbolic barriers in La zona (2007) by director Rodrigo Plá.” 3rd Annual Conference of Latin American, Latina/o, and Iberian Studies Association (LALISA). Portland, Oregon, April 6-7, 2018.
9. “Rethinking Migration as a Humanistic Issue.” Migration Studies and the Humanist Perspective Symposium. Michigan State University. East Lansing, Michigan. February 16, 2018.
10. “Precariedad, control y violencia a partir del choque social y urbano en La Zona (2007) del director Rodrigo Plá.” 64th Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS). Salt Lake City, Utah. April 5-8, 2017.
11. “Conflicto cultural del sujeto Imperial en el siglo XVI” Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS). Michigan State University. East Lansing, Michigan. March 24, 2017.
12. “Choque social y urbano en el cine latinoamericano contemporáneo.” 16th Annual TROPOS Graduate Student Conference. Michigan State University. East Lansing, Michigan. October 22, 2016.
13. “Contraposición de la escritura: Herramienta vertiente del poder y la violencia en La mala hora (1962) y Noticia de un secuestro (1996) de Gabriel García Márquez.” 69th Annual Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference. University of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky. April 14-16, 2016.
14. “Identidades conflictivas: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, (des)aculturación, transculturación y sujetos imperiales.” The Chicago Graduate Conference. University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Chicago, and Northwestern University. Chicago, Illinois. November 12-14, 2015.
15. “The Economic and Cultural Effects of Narcocorridos in the U.S.” 13th Conference on the Américas. Grand Valley State University. Grand Rapids, Michigan. March 20-21, 2015.
16. “Las relaciones de poder y lo grotesco en El Señor Presidente (1946) de Miguel Ángel Asturias y El Chacal del General (2011) de Mauro Zúñiga.” The XVIII Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium. The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio. April 10, 2015.
17. “Cultural Effects of Narcocorridos in Border Towns.” Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media. Northern Illinois University. Dekalb, Illinois. March 2014.