Professor Dr. Tamara Mitchell

Biography

Tamara L. Mitchell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in 20th-21st century Latin American literatures and cultures, with a focus on the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and literary tradition under advanced capitalism, particularly in Mexican and Central American narrative fiction. Dr. Mitchell’s monograph, titled 'Novel Distortions: Postnational Literary Form in Mexico and Central America', investigates contemporary literary responses to the shifting forms and functions of the nation-state in light of political upheaval and societal change. Alongside this, her current project, 'Sounds of the Capitalocene: Extraction and Aurality in Mexican Literature', examines how contemporary Mexican authors incorporate sound and listening in poetry and prose to respond to and envision alternatives to environmental and social devastation. Prof. Mitchell is widely published, with articles and book chapters on contemporary Latin American and Latinx authors, and she has co-edited a special issue on Latin American literary aurality in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. With numerous grants and awards, she is also involved in teaching and mentoring graduate students, focusing on Latin American literature and critical theory.

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