Andrea Garza is a PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literature at Harvard University. Her dissertation focuses on contemporary Mexican literature pertaining to femicides, forced disappearances and the Mexican Drug War. She is interested in the points of intersection between contemporary criminalized subjectivities, violence, and the pursuit of justice in today’s Mexico. Andrea’s research interests also include oral histories, Cuir/Queer theory, testimonio, decolonial theory, immigration, media studies, and horror. Andrea has a master’s degree in Romance Languages and Literature from Harvard, and a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Stanford.