Paco Tijerina

Paco Tijerina is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Hispanic Studies program with a graduate certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and a McDonnell Academy Scholar. He earned a B.A. in Communication and Digital Media with a certificate in Journalism and a M.A. in Humanistic Studies with a specialization in Literature and Discourse at Tec de Monterrey. His research and academic interests include literary artifacts produced by women in contemporary Mexico and Latin America and the circuits in which they are inserted, neo-extractivism and ecocriticism, and body practices from an anthropological standpoint. His most recent article “La narrativa contemporánea mexicana frente a la territorialización del cuerpo: mujeres narradoras de un cuerpo-territorio” was published in Humanitas: Revista de Teoría, Crítica y Estudios Literarios and he has an upcoming article titled “La crisis del capital en dos energoficciones contemporáneas…” that will be published in De Raíz Diversa: Revista Especializada en Estudios Latinoamericanos. He currently serves as the Editorial Assistant of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.