Profile
Dr. Martínez-Zalce received her bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Hispanic literature from the UNAM FES Acatlán and her master’s and doctorate in modern letters from the Iberoamerican University. She is a PRIDE scholar (D-level) and a level II member of the SNI and of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She is a specialist in the area of Canadian cultural studies and in the Migration and Borders and Identities and Cultural Processes areas of investigation. She has been a visiting researcher at El Colegio de México, at Canada’s McGill University, and at the Cuajimalpa campus of Mexico City’s Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM).
She is a professor at the School of Philosophy and Letters’ College of Hispanic Letters, where she teaches the Seminars on Literary Research I and II (Theory of Adaptation; Cinema and Literature), as well as at the School of Political and Social Sciences Graduate Department, where she teaches the Seminar on Cinema, Migration, and Borders in North America.
Position:
Full-time, tenured, C-level researcher assigned to the Social and Cultural Studies Area and current director of the CISAN, UNAM
Research Areas
- North American and Border Cultural Studies
- Theory of Adaptation
- Literary and Film Criticism with a Gender Focus
- Canadian Studies
Recent Publications
2021. Martínez-Zalce, Graciela y Mónica Verea (eds.) Migration and Borders in North America. Views from the 21st Century (México: CISAN, UNAM).
2021. Martínez-Zalce, Graciela y Camelia Tigau (eds.) Canadá y sus paradojas en el siglo XXI. Tomo II (Artes, ciencia política medios y migración) (México: CISAN, UNAM).
2020. Martínez-Zalce, Graciela y Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo (eds.) Cruzando la frontera. Narrativas de la migración: literaturas (México: CISAN, UNAM).
2019. Martínez-Zalce, Graciela “Canadian Cinema and Its Borders”, en Janine Marchessault y Will Straw (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema (Nueva York: Oxford University Press).
2019. Martínez-Zalce, Graciela y Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo (eds.) Cruzando la frontera. Narrativas de la migración en el cine (México: CISAN, UNAM).
2016. Martínez-Zalce, Graciela, Instrucciones para salir del limbo. Arbitrario de representaciones audiovisuales de las fronteras en América del Norte (México: CISAN, UNAM).
In addition to the first book on Canadian culture in Mexico:
1996. Martínez-Zalce, Graciela, ed. ¿Sentenciados al aburrimiento? Tópicos de cultura canadiense (México: CISAN, UNAM, Bonilla).
