Mexitli Nayeli Lopez Rios
Research project
My current research focuses on the study of notions such as disease, contagion, community, and survival represented in contemporary literary and cultural texts -mainly from the US- containing depictions of monsters and the monstrous regarding outbreaks and dystopian apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic scenarios. My approach draws on concepts from biopolitics, post-humanism, and monster studies to flesh out the relations between categories such as human/non-human, life/death, and self/other to assemble a restorative reading of the monsters Western societies engender.
Background
BA Hispanic Literature, Universidad de Guadalajara 2004-2009
MA in Mexican Literature Studies, Universidad de Guadalajara 2013-2015
Academic stays and funding
2013-2015
My MA in Mexican Literature Studies was funded by the PNPC (National Postgraduate
Quality Program) of CONACYT (National Council for Science and Technology).
2014
September-November GEXcel Scholar at the Unit of Gender Studies from the Department
of Thematic Studies, at Linköping University, Sweden. Under a combined scholarship from
the CONACYT (National Council for Science and Technology).
2009
August to December. Assistant of Professor Luis Rodolfo Morán Quiroz from the
Universidad de Guadalajara, under a PRO SNI CONACYT scholar grant.
Publications
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Lopez Rios, Mexitli Nayeli (2019). Queering the Grieving Body in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Certain Dark Things.
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Lopez Rios, Mexitli Nayeli (2019). "'Golden Handcuffs' and Cannibal Terrorists, or, What Zombies Might Show Us in Times of Inclusionism".
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Lopez Rios, Mexitli Nayeli (2019). “Queering the Grieving Body: Inside the Belly of a War Machine in Silvia Moreno-García’s Certain Dark Things”.
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Lopez Rios, Mexitli Nayeli (2018). "Becoming monstrous, becoming human: Contamination and reproduction in Oryx & Crake".