Wendy Alejandra Nogueda

Research and Teaching Interests

Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory, Cultural Studies, Affect Theory, Human Rights, the constitution of subjectivities.

Biography

Wendy Alejandra Nogueda is a Ph.D. student in Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. She is from Guatemala where she graduated from Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala with a secondary education credential to teach history. While living in Guatemala, she worked as a history instructor at Instituto Nacional de Educación Media Dr. Carlos Federico Mora.

She immigrated to the United States and worked as an English and Spanish tutor at Los Angeles Pierce College. She created and led an ESL book club to address the needs of English learners in their improvement of reading and critical thinking, determining the philosophy, methodology, objectives, and pedagogical resources of the club and selecting literary text to expose students to a diverse group of writers.  


She obtained a double major in Comparative Literature and Spanish with departmental honors and Summa Cum Laude from the University of California Los Angeles. Her focus on her departmental honors research was the violence representation in the texts “La fiesta de las balas” from El águila y la serpiente by Martín Luis Guzmán and “En la colonia penitenciaria” by Franz Kafka, discussing literature as a pedagogical instrument to question our lack of empathy before pain and torture. For her capstone, she explored the works El eterno femenino and “Meditación en el umbral” by Rosario Castellanos from the existential perspective of Søren Kierkegaard, considering the possibility of creating a new ethic to face women’s oppression.