Ignacio Lopez-Calvo

Ignacio Lopez-Calvo is a Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Merced, within the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. He serves as Director of the Center for the Humanities and holds the Presidential Chair in the Humanities.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Romance Languages (1997), University of Georgia
• M.A. in Spanish (1993), University of Georgia
• M.A. in Chicano Studies (2005), California State University, Los Angeles
• B.A. in English (1991), Universidad Complutense, Spain

Research Interests:

• Cultural production by Latin American authors of Asian descent
• Intersection of human rights, racialization, gender, migration, and authoritarianism in literary contexts