Cristina Vázquez
Cristina Vázquez holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), specializing in digital thick mapping and contemporary Peninsular and Mexican cultural productions. She also holds an M.A. from the University of California, Davis, where she specialized in the representation(s) of motherhood in Contemporary Peninsular literature. Her research combines literature, photography, visual culture, and migration studies to examine how narratives of movement and memory shape urban transformation(s). Focusing on neighborhoods such as Lavapiés in Madrid and Little Haití in Tijuana, her work engages digital humanities, counter-cartographies, and interdisciplinary approaches to questions of space, identity, and nationhood. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of "Mester" and was a fellow in the UCLA’s Urban Humanities Initiative graduate program, where she co-authored the digital project “Mujer Migrante Memorial” (2021).
Research Interests
- Digital Thick Mapping
- Photography and Urban Space
- Counter-Cartographies
- 20th- and 21st-Century Peninsular and Mexican Cultural Productions
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
- SPAN 2
- “La figura de García Lorca: memoria y resistencia queer en Bones of Contention”. Mester, 53: 72-84.
- Editor-in-Chief: “Identity and Borders: Migrations, Language, Belonging and Borders in the 21st Century", Mester, Volume 52.
- “Percepción y narrativa: Inmigración, adopción del dolor y agentes circulantes en Biutiful (2010) y La Promesse (1996)”. Mester, 52: 80-89.
- “Mujer Migrante Memorial” StoryMap and e-Codex Digital Archive in collaboration with Maite Zubiaurre/Filomena Cruz, Xiuwen Qi, Miranda Hirujo- Rincón, Eliza Franklin, and Maha Benhachmi
- “Reading the Writing on the Wall: A Palimpsestic Reading of Urban Cultural Representation,” e-Codex Digital Archives in collaboration with Clayton McKee and Artin Sahakian.