Marissa K. López

Marissa López is Associate Graduate Dean and Professor of English and Chicana/o and Central American Studies at UCLA. Her work has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and she has published in a range of leading journals in her field. Her research focuses on Chican@/x/e literature from the 19th century to the present with an emphasis on 19th century Mexican California. Professor López is the author of two books - Chicano Nations (NYU 2011) and Racial Immanence (NYU 2019) - and is the founder and curator of Picturing Mexican America, a collection of digital and publicly engaged humanities research projects.