Graduate Student in Spanish
Background
Sarai Garcia is originally from in Mexico City, but based in Boston, Massachusetts since 2017. After earning her BA degree, she worked on the editorial staff at Penguin Random House MX. She is a Teaching Fellow in Boston University’s Writing Program, and a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Language and Literatures. Her research focuses on the child subject as a fundamental agent for the reconstruction of the Nation-State consciousness during the post-revolutionary period in Mexico. Her dissertation, Fictions of Childhood: The Seed of National Identity in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (1920-1950), explores, through various cultural initiatives, one of the richest cultural repertoires surrounding the representation of Mexican childhood. She is particularly interested in works and traditions that intersect cultural institutions, globalization and nationalism, editorial practices, mass media, works of reparations, and cosmopolitanism in 20th-century children’s studies and literature in Mexico and Latin America.
Garcia has published several literary reviews and articles in Mexico City, and organized events on Latin American contemporary writers, translators, and filmmakers at the BU Pride Film Festival and the Center for Latin American Studies at the Pardee School of Global Studies.