Claudia Aburto Guzmán
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
Associations
Hispanic Studies
Roger Williams Hall, Room 302
About
Associate Professor Aburto Guzmán received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. In addition to language, she teaches courses on Latin American literatures and cultures from 19th century to the present, as well as translation courses. Since 2006 she has focused on human rights discourses and actions in and around the México – U.S. border. She is a summer-time volunteer with the Tucson-based human rights group the Samaritans.
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Expertise
border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Integration of humanistic and natural science pedagogical approaches, Latin American culture, Latin American intellectual inquiry on coloniality, Latin American literature, Latin American literatures and cultures of the 19th- 21st centuries, Latin American Photography and Social Art, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women's literatures and feminist inquiry, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, Latinx poetry and translation, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses