Constanza M. López Baquero

Constanza López Baquero is a professor of Spanish at the University of North Florida. She obtained her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research interests include Latin American literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, women writers, autobiography and testimonio, gender and violence, film and documentary, human rights and activism, migrations, and hip hop and youth cultures. She is the author of many publications, including Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia: Collective Efforts (Routledge 2024) and Trauma, memoria y cuerpo: el testimonio femenino en Colombia (AILCFH 2012), winner of the 2011 Victoria Urbano Prize for best critical monograph and the 2014 Monserrat Ordoñez Award. At UNF, she leads the digital oral history project Voces y Caras: Hispanic Communities of North Florida and Embroidery for Peace and Memory, a project focused on community art and activism with an accompanying digital archive.