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.