Janeth Manriquez

Research and Teaching Interests

Contemporary Latin American Literatures and Cultures produced by women, feminism, necropolitics, necroescrituras, trauma and body studies, [socio]linguistics, and digital humanities. She is interested in the discourse of violence and drug trafficking in Mexico, as well as in how violence against women influences the literaty works of Hispanic female writers.

Biography

Janeth Manriquez is a Ph.D. student in Spanish at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. She was born and raised in Ciudad Victoria and moved to Monterrey where she earned her B.A. in International Relations from Tecnológico de Monterrey in 2022. During her undergraduate studies, she minored in Spanish and focused all academic work on feminist topics such as: the terrorization of female bodies, the figure of Antigone and its representation in Latin American motherhood, the neologism of sheng nu (or leftover women) and its parallels in Latin American cultures, and the representation of compulsory heterosexuality in the Mexican novel, Casas vacias. For her capstone, she explored the relation between transnational crime and the necropolitics of gender in 21st-Century Latin America.

 

She has collaborated with different civil associations focused on the care of children and the raise of awareness of violence against women. Also, she has volunteered as a language acquisition teacher of English, French, and Italian for underrepresented communities in Monterrey, NL. Janeth is an active learner who’s constantly acquiring new skills in a broad set of areas such as computer science and foreign languages.