Department of Spanish and Portuguese

José Luis is a doctoral student in Hispanic Literature. He received a B.A. in Political Science from UNAM and a B.A. in Law from ITESM in Mexico City as well as his Master's in Hispanic Literature from Indiana University. His work focuses mostly on 20th and 21st century Latin American literature, critical theory, and political philosophy. His dissertation will study the narratives of crisis and the end of history after the culmination of the Cold War in Contemporary Latin American prose, contemporary art as well as in political theory, specifically, Political Theology.