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Adriana Guzmán García

First Year Spanish Ph.D. Student

Adriana Guzman: A medium close-up portrait of a young woman with shoulder-length, wavy brown hair and full bangs, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression. She is wearing a black, sleeveless mock-neck top and a thin silver chain necklace with a small circular pendant. She is positioned in front of white metal bookshelves tightly packed with books. The books directly behind her head feature English and Spanish titles related to social work, including "Social Work Practice," "Fundamentals of Social Intervention," and "Working in Social Work." The lighting is even, and the background is a library or academic setting.
Email
aguzmang@nd.edu

Biography

Adriana Guzmán García is a first-year PhD student in the Spanish program within the Department of Romance languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Comparative Literature from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras. As a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, her research examined the poetics of social death and gendered labour in contemporary Puerto Rican cultural artifacts. Adriana’s current research interests explore embodiment and affect in feminine and non masculine narratives in 20th and 21st century Puerto Rican literature, while extending these conversations to the broader Caribbean. 

Research Interests

Necropolitics, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies, Comparative Literature, Decolonial Studies