Position Title
PhD Candidate in Spanish
Associate Instructor of Spanish & Human Rights
Position Title
PhD Candidate in Spanish
Associate Instructor of Spanish & Human Rights
She/her/hers
107 Sproul Hall
Education and Degree(s)
- B.A. in History, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
- M.A. in Spanish, University of California, Davis
Honors and Awards
- Linnaeus-Palme Grant Award (Lunds Universitet, 2012)
- Hemispheric Institute on the Americas Summer Field Research Award (UC Davis, 2019)
- Editor-in-chief of Brújula, a peer-review journal on Latin American Studies (UC Davis, 2022)
Courses
- SPA 001 - Elementary Spanish 1
- SPA 002 - Elementary Spanish 2
- SPA 003 - Elementary Spanish 3
- SPA 170 - Introduction to Latin American Culture
- HMR 161 / HIS 161 - Human Rights in Latin America
Research Interests & Expertise
- 20th & 21st Century Latin American Literature
- Human Rights & Memory Studies in Latin America
- Literature Culture, and Politics of the Southern Cone
- Representations of the Internal Armed Conflict in Peru, particularly Peruvian Documentary Film
- Faculty Adviser: Michael Lazzara
Publications
- Huerta Vera, M. C. (2020). “Género, raza y afectos en La sangre de la aurora, de Claudia Salazar Jiménez”. Brújula, 13, 188-201. http://brujula.ucdavis.edu/uploads/8/1/9/3/81930408/9._huerta_claudia._genero_raza_y_afectos.pdf
- Huerta Vera, M. C. (2020). “«Desde el sagrado púlpito y en exhortaciones privadas»: la circulación de información durante la guerra de Independencia peruana”. Histórica, 44(1), 125-158. http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/historica/article/view/23275/22257
- Huerta Vera, M. C. (2019). “La palabra impresa durante la guerra de Independencia peruana”. Víctor Peralta Ruiz y Dionisio de Haro (eds.), España en Perú (1796-1824). Ensayos sobre los últimos gobiernos virreinales. Madrid: Marcial Pons, 111-136.