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Department Teaching Award at the Hispanic and Portuguese Studies Teaching Appreciation Ceremony, Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Pennsylvania

Conference Funding through Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Writing Program Committee at Muhlenberg College

New Course Development Grant, Muhlenberg Center for Teaching and Learning at Muhlenberg College

Los (no)espacios transnacionales e identidades fronterizas en la narrativa mexicana contemporánea

Inclusión, exclusión y ambivalencia migratoria: Los niños migrantes de Valeria Luiselli

Tales of (Self-)Destruction: Zombies, Soldiers, and Biopolitics in Two Mexican Narco Short Stories

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.

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