Audrey Harris Fernández

Audrey Harris Fernández (Ph.D., UCLA 2016) is a Lecturer in UCLA's Department of Chicano Studies, specializing in transnational Latinx literature, social justice, and public art advocacy. She teaches courses in Chicana/o Narrative, Gender Studies, and Intellectual Traditions while maintaining an active role in prison education programs.

• Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literatures, UCLA (2016)
• M.A., Hispanic Languages and Literatures, UCLA (2011)
• B.A., English (minor: Spanish), Stanford University (2004)

Her research focuses on time-space intersections in Borges and Cisneros, prison writing pedagogy, and the role of public art in social repair for displaced Mexican American communities. Current grant-funded work examines the disappearance of Claremont's historic El Arbol Verde neighborhood.

Recent publications highlight her pedagogical approaches to transnational literature, interview-based research with Latinx artists, and feminist recovery of Mexican Gothic writers. She explores intersections between myth, memory, and marginalized communities' narratives.

• California Arts Council Emerging Artist Award (2023-24)
• Mellon Public Scholars Fellowship (2015-16)

As co-translator of Amparo Dávila's The Houseguest (New Directions, 2018), she bridges Mexican Gothic traditions with contemporary audiences. Her multimedia prison writing project Nos contamos a través de los muros (2015-16) resulted in the anthology Liberating Fictions, while her advisory work supports UCLA's Prison Education Program.