A discussion with Dr. Cuautemoc Mexica an Organic Intellectual

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Washington, 2015

Dissertation: "Pariahs, Tricksters, and the Subversion of Modernity: The Decolonial Borderland Narratives of Cormac McCarthy and Eduardo Antonio Parra."

C.T. Mexica has a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Washington (2015). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University's School of Social Transformation. While at UW he received a distinguished Bonderman Travel Fellowship (2008) that allowed him "to wander and wonder" overseas for a year and in 2015 the UW Graduate School selected him as the sole Scholar-Citizen (Graduate School Medal) for integrating his academic expertise and social awareness in a way that demonstrates active civic engagement and a capacity to promote political, cultural and social change. C.T.’s research is centered on the literature of crime, confessions, and confinement and on theories of tragedy, transformation, and transition. C.T. was recently chosen as an inaugural (2018-2019) Art For Justice Fellow to write a literary memoir about the human toll of mass incarceration through the nexus of literature, art, and justice. 

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