Jannet Torres Espinoza

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Graduate Student in Spanish, Emphasis in Human Rights
PhD Candidate
Associate Instructor
Faculty Advisor: Ana Peluffo

707 Sproul Hall

Education & Degrees

  • B.A. Literature, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru
  • M.A. Literature, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru
  • M.A. Spanish, Florida International University, Miami

Honors & Awards

  • Dean’s Summer Graduate Support Award. Summer 2024. UC Davis. College of Letters and Sciences.
  •  Global Grad Grant, Research Track. Summer 2024. UC Davis. Global Learning Hub. 
  • Global Education for All Fellow. 2023-2024. 
  • Hemispheric Institute of the Americas (HIA) Summer Research Fellowship 2022. UC Davis. 
  • Davis Humanities Institute (DHI) Grant to attend the National Humanities Center and Digital Humanities Center, January 10th-14th, 2022. 
  • Provost Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 2021-2022. UC Davis. 
  • Research Awards 2021. Master dissertation awarded as outstanding among research presented between 2019-2020 at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru). 

Courses (Taught recently)

  • SPA 170: Introduction to Latin American Culture. Fall 2024. | UC Davis
  • SPA 2: Elementary Spanish. Fall 2022, Spring 2024, Winter 2024. | UC Davis
  • SPA 3: Elementary Spanish. Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Winter 2023, Fall 2023. | UC Davis
  • Latin American Podcast. Spring 2021. |  Florida International University (FIU)
  • Spanish for Non-heritage Speakers-Basic II. Summer 2020, Fall 2020. | FIU
  • Spanish for Non heritage Speakers-Basic I. Miami. Fall 2019, Spring 2020 | FIU

Research Interests & Expertise

  • Latin American Literature and Culture
  • 19th & 20th Century Peruvian Narrative
  • Human Rights
  • Identity and Migration
  • Bilingualism and Pedagogy
  • Podcast and Digital humanities.

Publications

  • Torres Espinoza, J. (2021). “El Neocostumbrismo peruano (1885-1914): sinsabores de modernidad en Lima.” Historia de las Literaturas en el Perú. Vol. III. Velázquez Castro, Marcel and Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (Collection directors); Velázquez Castro, Marcel and Francesca Denegri (Third volumen coordinators). Casa de la Literatura Peruana y Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. 2021. 
  • Torres Espinoza, J. (2020). “El coleccionista de libros de Abelardo Gamarra, El Tunante. Entrevista con Aladino Carbajal.” Educaccion. Diálogo informado sobre políticas públicas. [Online]. Retrieved from https://www.educaccionperu.org/el-coleccionista-de-libros-de-abelardo-gamarra-el-tunante/
  • Torres Espinoza, J. (2019). “Abelardo Gamarra, El Tunante, y el protagonismo del migrante serrano en la Lima de Posguerra.” Ni amar ni odiar con firmeza. Cultura y emociones en el Perú posbélico (1885-1925). Francesca Denegri (comp.). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. pp.129-151.
  • Torres Espinoza, J. (2018). “Abelardo Gamarra y un lugar llamado Pelagatos (o los extramuros de la modernidad).” Revista Amerika [Online]. N°17. 2017. Autour de Manuel González Prada (Lima, 5 janvier 1844-Lima, 22 juillet 1918). Retrieved from https://journals.openedition.org/amerika/8215.
  • Torres Espinoza, J. (2018). “Abelardo Gamarra “El Tunante” y el narrador forastero en los artículos de costumbres en ‘Rasgos de Pluma’ (1875-1877).” Revista del Instituto Riva – Agüero. Vol. 3, N°. 1. pp.163-190. Retrieved from http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/revistaira/article/view/19485.
  • Torres Espinoza, J. (2015) “¡Bajo Imperio! ¡Aquí estamos los bárbaros!: Cooperación cultural en conflicto en las primeras crónicas de César Vallejo.” Miradas recíprocas entre Perú y Francia. Mónica Cárdenas (comp.). Universidad Ricardo Palma y Université Bordeaux Montaigne. pp.269-286.
  • Torres Espinoza, J. (2009). “Manuel Moncloa y Covarrubias y el artículo costumbrista en la prensa peruana de fines del siglo XIX.” Boletín de Instituto Riva-Agüero. N°39. pp.243-272. Retrieved from http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/114393

Membership & Service

Primary Leader. Aggies Near and Far Podcast. 2023-2024. || 2024-2025

Head Committee. 16th Annual Samuel Armistead Colloquium: Digital Landscapes: Paths to Reparative Justice in a Technological World. University of California, Davis. [Hybrid format]. April 6th and 7th, 2023. 

Head Committee. IV International Symposium Peru XIX. Authority, Citizenship and Bodies: Displacements and Fractures in Modernity. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. [Online]. From November 30th to December 2nd, 2022.