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Zaira Ruiz

Kellogg Institute Doctoral Student Affiliate Zaira Ruiz
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Zaira Ruiz is a PhD student in Spanish who compares narratives in contemporary Mexican and French literature. Her research problematizes multi-genre and transdisciplinary writing, ecology, inequality, geographic and social mobility, and the intersectionality and interweaving of race, class, and gender.

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  • Mexico
  • Nigeria
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  • Africa
  • Central America
  • Latin America
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  • US-Mexico Border
Research Tags
  • Colonial Studies
  • Culture
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  • Globalization
  • Human Rights
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  • Literature and Film
  • Migration/Border Studies
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2022-2023   Exclusion, Displacement, and Emancipation in the Writing of Cristina Peri Rossi and Annie Ernaux
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2021-2022   International and Interdisciplinary Conference (Errances et ancrages); Toulon, France
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From the Field

Exclusion, Displacement, and Emancipation in the Writing of Cristina Peri Rossi and Annie Ernaux

Sep 11, 2023

From January 2023 through August 2023, Kellogg Doctoral Affiliate Zaira Ruiz (romance languages - Spanish) traveled to the Paris, France, on a Kellogg Institute Graduate Research Grant to conduct research for her project, “Exclusion, Displacement, and Emancipation in the Writing of Cristina Peri Rossi and Annie Ernaux” Upon her return, she sent the following summary of her work.

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