​COMENTARIO EDITORIAL

Sara de Blas Hernández Ph.D. candidate in Spanish Linguistics at the University of California, Davis. Her research sits at the intersection of language, food, and pedagogy, examining how multisensory learning methodologies can enhance the teaching of Spanish language and literature. In her primary line of research, she investigates how food and food-related practices can enrich second and foreign language learning. Additionally, Sara explores experiential approaches to teaching early modern Spanish literature, working closely with faculty in literary studies, to help students engage more deeply with historical texts and overcome linguistic barriers.

ENFOQUES
Ernesto Josué Mendoza Pérez Latin Americanist and historian, a graduate of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE). He is currently a doctoral student in the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His research interests include intellectual history and the relationship between history and literature.

Ana Deleon-Zemke Associate Instructor at UC Davis in the Spanish and Portuguese Department, where she is also a Ph.D. candidate specializing in Latin American Literature with an emphasis on Critical Theory. Her research interests focus on ecocriticism and how nature and feminism provide frameworks for conversations about gender, reproductive justice, and the state of the environment and its relationship to women of color.

Ana Ortega Pérez PhD in Communications and doctoral candidate in Spanish Linguistics at the University of California, Davis. She also holds a master’s in International Relations and a bachelor’s in Journalism. Her research focuses on language education, media analysis, and social equity. As coordinator of the Heritage program, co-founder of the Latine Co-Lab, and an instructor at UC Davis, she develops innovative pedagogical approaches to Spanish language learning.

Angélica González-Bastidas Lawyer, linguist, and doctoral candidate at UCD. Her research merges law with linguistics, focusing on linguistic rights. With a background in financial law, she specializes in regulatory compliance and consumer protection. She is a researcher and co-founder of the Latine Co- Lab and serves as a board member of International House Davis, where she combines her professional expertise with community service to promote cultural exchange and linguistic equity. 

Mariana Da Silva Gabriel Originally from Portugal, Mariana moved to the United Kingdom at age six and received her bachelor’s degree from Cardiff University and master’s from the University of Oxford. She is a musicology PhD student at the University of California, Davis. Her current research examines the interplay between music and politics under authoritarian regimes, as well as music-making as societal response to authoritarianism. However, she also examines intersections of music, identity, and diaspora, building on previous projects that include an ethnographic study of fado (a Portuguese urban popular song) in the UK Portuguese diaspora and a documentary film on fado and diaspora in California.

ARTE FACTU
J. Mae Barizo Born in Toronto, J. Mae Barizo is a poet, essayist and transdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of poetics, media and performance. She is the author of two books of poetry, Tender Machines (Tupelo Press, 2023) and The Cumulus Effect (Four Way Books, 2015). Becoming Hybrid, her book on transdisciplinary and literary theory is forthcoming in the Poets on Poetry series from University of Michigan Press. Pink Noise, a book of hybrid essays on John Cage and the poetics of sound was a finalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the 2023 Megaphone Prize. Her work has been anthologized in books published by Simon and Schuster, W.W. Norton, Atelier Editions and Harvard University Press.

TRAVESÍA CRÍTICA
Carlos L. Paredes Hernández graduate student in History at the University of California, Davis. He holds a BA in Social Sciences from the National University of San Marcos (Peru) and a graduate certificate in History of the Americas from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He co-edited the book “Hijos de inmigrantes: el estudiante sanmarquino de Historia” (UNMSM, 2019) and he is currently a fellow at Fuentes Históricas del Perú and the Red de Humanidades Digitales.