Angel M. Díaz-Dávalos
Assistant Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures - Spanish
Biography
Dr. Díaz-Dávalos is from the border city of Tijuana, México, and holds a Ph.D. from Temple University. His research and teaching interests are focused in the areas of 20th–21st century Mexican Literature and Culture, and U.S.-Mexico Border Studies. His current book project on the spaces and places of modern Mexican violence, challenges the theoretical paradigms of literary narratives and cinema about drug trafficking and U.S.-Mexico trans-border narratives. He has published in academic journals as well as in edited book collections. Prior to joining LMU, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as the Department’s Coordinator of Elementary Spanish. Prof. Díaz-Dávalos’ teaching practices have earned him two ‘Excellence in Teaching’ Awards at Temple and the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
Education
Temple University
Ph.D.
Spanish American Literature
2018
Temple University
M.A.
Spanish American Literature
2012
University of California, Riverside
B.A.
Hispanic Studies
2009
Social
Areas of Expertise
Hispanic Studies
U.S.-Mexico Border Studies
Mexican Literary and Cultural Studies
Accomplishments
Department Teaching Award at the Hispanic and Portuguese Studies Teaching Appreciation Ceremony, Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Pennsylvania
2022
Conference Funding through Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Writing Program Committee at Muhlenberg College
2020
New Course Development Grant, Muhlenberg Center for Teaching and Learning at Muhlenberg College
2020
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Event Appearances
The Body Economic: Coloniality and Debt in Latin America
54th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association Niagara Falls, NY
2023-03-23
Articles
Los (no)espacios transnacionales e identidades fronterizas en la narrativa mexicana contemporánea
Transculturación y trans-identidades en la literatura contemporánea mexicana2022
Inclusión, exclusión y ambivalencia migratoria: Los niños migrantes de Valeria Luiselli
Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos2021, delayed to 2022
Tales of (Self-)Destruction: Zombies, Soldiers, and Biopolitics in Two Mexican Narco Short Stories
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos2021
