Paulina Hernández-Trejo

Paulina Hernández-Trejo is an English Ph.D. student and a recipient of the JosephGaia Distinguished Fellowship in Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. As a transfronteriza from the El Paso/Juárez Borderland region in Texas and Chihuahua, she is intrigued by the political, emotional, and social complexities in U.S. immigration and migration history,exploring how multiethnic (im)migration literature contributes to our understanding of American identity within and beyond the United States. Her literary research focuses on the haunting presences, from la llorona to technological forms of surveillance, that illuminate the underlying socio-historical complexities of the Borderlands in 20th and 21st-century Latinx, Black,Indigenous, and Asian American literatures. Further, as a digital humanist she uses digital methodologies to conduct literary cartographic analyses and create digital archival representations of marginalized histories and art. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in English from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and was a Teach For America San Antonio 2018 Corps Member.