Maria Jose Gutierrez, Spanish and Portuguese
- Mobile Archives: Affect, Migration, and Storytelling in Twentieth Century Ecuador
María José is a third year PhD candidate in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at UC, Davis. She holds a master’s degree in Latin American Literature from New York University. She is currently working as Editor for the interdisciplinary journal Brújula sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute of the Americas and is Webmaster and collaborator in the digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation at UC Davis. Her areas of research include affect theory, material culture and migration studies in the Andes region as well as Latin American female writers and testimonio literature. Her dissertation examines untold stories of mobility in Ecuador during the twentieth century looking at different forms, archives and genres through which the affective dimension of mobility gets conveyed and enacted.