Olga López-Cotín

Olga López-Cotín is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Spanish Program at the Residential College, University of Michigan. Her research focuses on cultural and artistic manifestations in contemporary Latin American and Spanish societies that resist institutional discourses. She teaches seminars on gender, writing, and art in 20th-century Latin America, and explores national identity in Spain post-Civil War and during its dictatorship era. Recent work examines urban dynamics in Latin America and Spain as sites of democratic values. Collaborations include the Cultures in Dialogue project and translations for the Law School Human Trafficking Clinic, emphasizing cosmopolitanism in globalized societies.

Education: Ph.D. (specific details not provided).

Research Interests:

• Cultural resistance through art and literature
• Identity politics in post-dictatorship Spain
• Urban sociology and democracy
• Immigration and cultural heterogeneity

Key Projects:

• Cultures in Dialogue: Crossing External and Internal Boundaries in Europe
• Law School Human Trafficking Clinic translations

Contact: Office: Residential College East Quad, 701 E. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1245 | Phone: 734.647.4372