About Audrey Harris

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Audrey Harris graduated with a B.A. in English with a minor in Spanish Area and Cultural Studies from Stanford University in 2004, after which she worked in literary publishing for five years at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and later Harper Collins. After moving back to her home state of California, she received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UCLA in June, 2016. She has received grants and fellowships from the Rue Pine Foundation, the Latin American Institute, and the graduate division of the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as from the UCLA Alumni Scholars Foundation. She has also taught classes in Spanish and Latin American language, literature, and film at UCLA and at the Cineteca Nacional of México City. Her articles, creative writing and reviews have been published in Párrafo, Film International, the Stanford Women's Newsletter, McSweeney's.net, and Aztlán (forthcoming). She is co-editor of Alvaro Retana's Las locas del postín (Stockzero, 2013). Her dissertation, currently under development for publication, is entitled ´De lo más pobre y de lo más lindo´: Transnational Borges and Sandra Cisneros. In the summer of 2016, Audrey received a Public Scholars Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to bring her literary work on Borges and Cisneros to a writing workshop in the women's section of the CERESO (Centro de Reinserción Social, or Center for Social Reinsertion) of Mérida, México. This blog is a record of her experiences with the women in the CERESO in Mérida, as well as with other women currently on the path to social reinsertion in the Ciudad Blanca.

 

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Audrey Harris, Ph.D.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Rolfe Hall 5328
University of California, Los Angeles