Karina Hodoyán is an Associate Professor in the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures department and the Director of the Center for Latinx Studies in the Americas at the University of San Francisco. She previously served as the Academic Director of the MA in Migration Studies. Prof. Hodoyán holds a Masters in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University with a focus on Interamerican Literature and Culture, as well as a PhD from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Stanford University. Her research interests include Mexican, US-Mexico Border, and Chicanx Literary and Cultural Studies, Visual and Performance Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.