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Hugo A. López Chavolla

Graduate student Hugo A. López Chavolla
Professional Title: 
Graduate Student
Bio: 
Hugo Alberto López Chavolla is a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at UC Merced. He specializes in Latin American studies focusing on the cultural production of Arab communities in Latin America. His research interests include affects and structures of feeling of migration and dislocation, social structures of virtual worlds, and Mexico's cultural transformations during the 21st century. In his research, he utilizes an interdisciplinary approach - borrowing from cultural, sociological, literary, postcolonial, decolonial, and affect theories - to the studies of literature, film, and visual arts. He holds a B.A. in Spanish, a B.S. in Business Management, and an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities. He is passionate about learning and teaching and enjoys writing fiction and poetry in English and Spanish during his spare time. Some of his poems and short stories have been published in the UC Merced Vernal Pools Journal, Z Publishing's Best Emerging Poets anthologies, and America’s Best Emerging Writers series.