Constanza M. Lopez

Constanza López Baquero is Associate Professor at the University of North Florida where she teaches courses on Spanish language and Latin American culture and literature. She obtained her doctorate in Hispanic Literatures from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her topics of interest and research include Latin American Literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, women's literature, autobiography and testimonio, gender and violence, cinema, human rights, migration, Hispanics in the United States, and youth cultures, particularly the culture of hip hop. In 2010, she won the Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Award (AEGS-AGSS) for her manuscript, Trauma, memoria y cuerpo: el testimonio femenino en Colombia (1985-2000), which was published in 2012. The book was awarded the Monserrat Ordóñez Award (LASA Colombia) in 2014. She has published multiple articles and presented her research in the United States and abroad. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled Collective Efforts: Reterritorialization of Spaces of Violence in Colombia. At UNF she leads the oral history project Voces y Caras: Hispanic Communities of North Florida and the annual community event Embroidering for Peace and Memory.