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Luis Cortes

Lecturer

Luis Cortes

Luis Alberto Cortes earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in Literature from UC San Diego. Before joining UCSD’s Analytical Writing Program, he taught in UCSD’s Literature department and Marshall College’s Dimensions of Culture Program. His research interests include 20th century American Literature, Latinx & Chicanx literature, and a variety of Spanish, Anglophone, and Transatlantic literatures and discourses. His writing explores the genealogical modern inheritance of colonial mechanisms destroying bodies and epistemologies deemed expungeable by dominant hegemonic culture. He has presented work at The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) Conference and the UMass-Amherst Graduate History Association Conference.