Nattie Golubov Figueroa

ngolubov@unam.mx
Phone: 55 5623-0303

Profile

Nattie Golubov obtained her PhD in English from Queen Mary College, University of London, after receiving an M.A. in Victorian Literature from the University of Leeds, UK. She has been a lecturer at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM, where she has taught courses on research methods, literatures in English and literary and cultural theory in the English Department and the Graduate School.
She has been responsible and has collaborated in several research projects on cultural studies, literatures in English, popular genres in the US such as self-help literature, crime fiction and the romance novel; more recently she has focused on the geopolitics of contemporary US fiction. Her individual research projects include "Geopolitical Narratives: Spatiality, Conflict and Power in Contemporary US Literature" and "The Culture Wars in US Higher Education: A Historical and Sociocultural Perspective".

A selection of her publications are available at: https://unam.academia.edu/NattieGolubov

Position:

Professor, Social and Cultural Studies Area, CISAN, UNAM

Research Areas

My research focuses on the critical examination of a wide variety of US texts and other cultural products using a diverse theoretical and methodological archive, with the purpose of understanding the representation of conflict between diverse groups of people in the United States.

Recent Publications

2021 The Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration (Lexington Books).

2021 Necropower in North America: The Legal Spatialization Of Disposability And Lucrative Death (Palgrave Macmillan).

2018 Guerras necropolíticas y biopolítica de asilo en América del Norte (UNAM-UACM).