Angel M. Díaz-Dávalos
Assistant Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures - Spanish Loyola Marymount University
Biography
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
Accomplishments
Book under Contract at Vanderbilt University Press (Critical Mexican Studies Series): Unsovereign Fictions: Necropolitics and Community in Mexican Narconarratives
2026-09-14
First book-length manuscript. Contract: September 2026.
Research Grant: The BCLA Research and Writing Grant, Loyola Marymount University.
2024-04-30
Grant awarded for book project.
Teaching Grant: Global-Local Affairs Curriculum Development Grant, Loyola Marymount University.
2024-04-30
Teaching grant for course SPAN 4998 – “Special Studies: Transborder Narratives,”
Department Teaching Award at the Hispanic and Portuguese Studies Teaching Appreciation Ceremony, University of Pennsylvania
2022-04-30
Department Teaching Award
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Event Appearances
“Exploring the Extractive Oikos in Contemporary Mexico."
Northeast Modern Language Association Newport, RI, USA.
2027-03-06
“The Domestic Mine: The Afterlives of Slow Violence in Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s La compañía.”
The 2027 Modern Language Association Annual Convention Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2027-01-07
“Holograms in the Garden: Reading Mexico’s Museum of the Future.”
The 57th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
2026-03-05
“Navigating a Neglected River in the U.S.-Mexico Border: Peripheral Toxicity and Ecological Degradation in Rodríguez Ruelas’s Aunque es de noche.”
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference 2025 University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
2025-07-08
“La violencia en México: Comunidad, biopolítica y las ficciones sin soberanía.”
60º Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas Montreal, Canada
2024-06-01
Sample Talks
“Debtors and Creditors: Symbolic Debt in Immigrant Narratives.”
Talk for the Honors Lecture Series for the University Honors Program, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA. April 10th, 2026.
“How do narcos ‘care’? The Public Performance of (Cartel) Protection in Contemporary Mexico.”
Talk for the BCLA Lectures at Lunch Series, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA. October 10th, 2026.
Articles
“Utopian Futures, Heterotopic Spaces: Gabriela Damián Miravete’s Imaginary Reconstitution of Society”
Romance QuarterlyAngel M. Diaz-Davalos
Forthcoming
“Makina the Debtor, Makina the Creditor: Migrant Bodies and Moral Debt in Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo.”
Latin American Literary ReviewAngel M. Diaz-Davalos
2025-12-01
2025.
“Los pliegues de la migración: Liminalidad y neoliberalismo en las crónicas centroamericanas de Óscar Martínez y Carlos Dada.”
Textos Híbridos: Revista de Estudios sobre Crónica y Periodismo NarrativoAngel M. Diaz-Davalos
2024-11-01
In Dossier: Centroamérica en la crónica contemporánea, edited by Mauricio Espinoza.
