Luz Jimenez Ruvalcaba

Luz M. Jiménez Ruvalcaba is a PhD candidate in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of literary criticism, comparative ethnic studies, and critical feminisms. Her interdisciplinary research agenda attends to the poetics of trauma and the socio-historical formations of familial violence. Born in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, México, Luz is from Inglewood, CA.