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.



Research and Academic Development

  1. Editorial Graduate Assistant, Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (REGS), Michigan State University Press (spring 2020)

  2. ($2,000.00) Archival work: The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings at the University of California, Los Angeles. Summer of 2018

  3. Research Assistant for the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Diversity, and Inclusion, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University. Fall 2015-Spring 2017


Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals


“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 7 (2015): 1-39.



Selected Conference Papers and Presentations at Professional Conferences

  1. “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

  2. “What Happens to a Dream Deferred: Film Discussion.” 3rd Biennial Conference Latina/o Studies Association. “Latinx Studies Now.” Washington, DC. July 11-15, 2018

  3. “Transgressions of physical, social and symbolic barriers in La zona (2007) by director Rodrigo Plá.” 3rdAnnual Conference of Latin American, Latina/o, and Iberian Studies Association (LALISA). Portland, Oregon, April 6-7, 2018

  4. “Rethinking Migration as a Humanistic Issue.” Migration Studies and the Humanist Perspective Symposium. Michigan State University. East Lansing, Michigan. February 16, 2018

  5. “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

  6. “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

  7. “Choque social y urbano en el cine latinoamericano contemporáneo.” 16th Annual TROPOS Graduate Student Conference. Michigan State University. East Lansing, Michigan. October 22, 2016

  8. “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

  9. “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

  10. “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

  11. “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

  12. “Cultural Effects of Narcocorridos in Border Towns.” Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media. Northern Illinois University. Dekalb, Illinois. March 2014