Lucas Ruppel

Research Interests 

• Latin American Literature and Culture
• Film Studies
• Critical Border Studies
• Autonomy of Migration
• Queer migrations
• Care
• Latin American Travesti Theory
• Archival Practices
• Digital Storytelling

 Courses Taught

• SPA 002 (Elementary Spanish), Fall 2022
• SPA 002 (Elementary Spanish), Winter 2023
• SPA 177: California y América Latina (Upper Division), Spring 2023
• SPA 002V (Elementary Spanish) [Online], Summer 2023
• SPA 21 (Intermediate Spanish), Fall 2023
• SPA 003Y (Elementary Spanish), Winter 2024
• SPA 003Y (Elementary Spanish), Spring 2024
• SPA 170: Memoria, archivo y comunidad en América Latina (Upper Division), Summer Session I 2024
• SPA 022Y (Intermediate Spanish), Fall 2024
• SPA 169: Narrativas del cuidado en contexto de migración (Upper Division), Winter 2025
• SPA 003 (Elementary Spanish), Spring 2025  

Selected Publications

Book chapters

• "Migrantes transgénero. Entre el tránsito y la transición" (forthcoming), co-authored with Robert Mckee Irwin and Aster Rasnick, in Movilidades sexo-genéricas en América Latina y el Caribe: Debates y perspectivas teórico-metodológicas emergentes, edited volume by El Colegio de México and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Books

• 2019. Aguafuertes silvestres. Arlt desde Sierra de la Ventana (comp.). Bahía Blanca, Hemisferio Derecho.
• 2020. El país de la leyenda bibliotecaria. Germán García por los Estados Unidos (ed.). Bahía Blanca, Biblioteca Popular Bernardino Rivadavia.

Honors and Awards

• Provost Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021-2022, UC Davis Office of the Provost/Graduate Studies
• Humanizando la Deportación, Summer Grant 2022
• Working Group, UC Davis Humanities Institute, 2022-2023
• Summer Research Fellowship 2023, Hemispheric Institute of the Americas, Summer 2023
• Global Aggies Award for LGBTQIA+ Rights, Global Affairs, Summer 2023
• Seed Funding Opportunity for Mobilities to Mexico, UC Alianza MX, Summer 2024
• Summer Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Summer 2025
• UC Humanities Consortium Graduate Support Award, UC Davis Humanities Institute/ UC Office of the President, Summer 2025
• Global Grad Grant, Research Track, Global Learning Hub, Global Affairs, Summer 2025

Affiliations

• Research Member, Volunteers Coordinator, and Webmaster, Humanizando la Deportación/el Asilo
• Graduate Student Affiliate, UC Davis Global Migration Center
• Graduate Student Member, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)