Yunuen Gómez-Ocampo
Instructor of Spanish
- email: ygomezocampo@ua.edu
- phone (205) 348-5059
- office location BB Comer Hall 233
Education
- PhD, Hispanic Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara
- MA, Publishing, Autonomous University of Morelos State, Mexico
- BA, Literature, Autonomous University of Morelos State, Mexico
Research Areas
- Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies
- Migration and Border Studies
- Gender Studies
- Women Writers
- Testimonial Genres
- Translation Studies
- Literary Publishing
Bio
Dr. Gómez Ocampo received a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and a Doctoral Emphasis in Translation Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara as a UC MEXUS – CONACYT Doctoral Fellow (UC Institute for Mexico and the United States & Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología). Her research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first centuries Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean studies, cultural studies, migration studies, and gender theory.
Through her research and teaching, she investigates the Western concept of the body within the context of violence and forced displacement in Latin American and Latinx writers, artists and communities. Her interdisciplinary study draws from contemporary discussions on borderlands theory, gender studies, human mobility, testimonial genres and visual art and literary theory in relation to migration, trauma and memory.
Selected Publications
Book
- Virgilio Piñera, La Vida Entera. Introduction, edition and notes by Yunuen Gómez Ocampo. México: Lectorum, 2012. (ISBN 9781505828269)
Article
- Gómez Ocampo, Yunuen. “La Traición como una Síntesis Dialéctica Negativa en El Apando de José Revueltas y Felipe Cazals” (“Betrayal as a Negative Synthesis in El Apando by José Revueltas and Felipe Cazals”). iMex. México Interdisciplinario. Interdisciplinary Mexico, 5.10 (2016): 117-129. (ISSN 2193-9756)
Assistance in the Production of Audiovisual Testimonials
- Jazmin Mendez, “Vivencias de las hijas de una madre deportada” (“Experiences of the Daughters of a Deported Mother”) #264, 2021: http://humanizandoladeportacion.ucdavis.edu
- Carlos Manuel Ramírez, “It’s Not All Bad” (“No Todo Está Mal”) #263, 2021: http://humanizandoladeportacion.ucdavis.edu
- Ludvin, “Dos Separaciones Familiares” (“Two Family Separations”) #257a-b, 2021: http://humanizandoladeportacion.ucdavis.edu
Translation
- Velmezova, E. “El eterno retorno al tema del ‘pensamiento primitivo:’ L. Vygotsky y N. Marr revisando la obra de L. Lévy-Bruhl” (“The Eternal Return to the Issue of ‘Primitive Thought’: L. Vygotsky and N. Marr looking at L. Lévy-Bruhl.”) Refracción. Revista de Lingüística Materialista, 10.4, 2021. University of Murcia, Spain (ISSN 2695-6918)