About Us

Miguel López-Lozano is an Associate Professor of Mexican and Chican@ Literature and Border Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. He has a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley and more than 30 years’ experience teaching at the university level. He has published articles in journals in the United States, Mexico, Cuba and Germany.  His book published through Purdue University Press, Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares: Globalization in Recent Mexican and Chicano Narrative (2008), focuses on urban spaces in the Mexican and Chicano literature.

Dr. Kimberle S. López is an Associate Professor of Latin American Literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley and she has more than 30 years’ experience teaching at the university level.  She is the author the book Latin American Novels of the Conquest: Reinventing the New World (2002) which examines historical narratives that rewrite the chronicles of conquest. Her research focuses on themes such as colonization, migration, and the ethics of international adoption from Latin America.