Profile for Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo
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Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Assistant Professor
Global Cultures & Languages
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Assistant Professor
Global Cultures & Languages
Specialty area(s)
Contemporary Latin American literature and culture; women writers; women, gender, and sexuality studies; Latinx studies; and World Languages Education
Brief biography
Dr. Ochoa is originally from Barranquilla, Colombia. She has been a teacher for 23 years and has taught in K-12 both in her home country and the United States. Her research interests include Contemporary Latin American and Latinx women authors, motherhood studies, latinx studies, and language pedagogy.
Current courses at UWL
SPA 307 Latin American Texts: Reading Between the Lines
SPA 310 Exploring Communities: Understanding Culture
SPA 332 Spanish Speakers in the U.S
SPA 369 Topics in Hispanic Cultures
SPA 403 Studies in Hispanic Literature
GCL 300/320 World Language Education: Field I and II
FYS 100 First Year Seminar
Education
Ph.D. Spanish, University of Virginia
M.A. Spanish, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
B.Ed. English and Spanish, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia
Career
Research and publishing
“El otro Tom.” Book review. Revista de Libros No. 3, Vol. 2, Spain, January 3rd, 2024.
“Todas íbamos a ser madres: raza, maternidad y violencia en la narrativa de tres escritoras colombianas del siglo XXI.” Revista Iberoamericana, Liverpool University Press, 2023, Volume 89, Issue 282-283, pp. 195-210.
“Hija eres y madre serás: Daughters and their Mothers in Latinx Memoirs by Cherríe Moraga and Anika Fajardo.” Maternal Connections: When Daughter Becomes Mother. Edited by Joan Garvan and Kandee Kosior, Demeter Press, 2022, pp. 165-174.
“Feeling Good: “Affect Aliens” of the Colombian Diaspora in Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera.” Growing Up in Latin America. Edited by Marco Ramírez Rojas and Pilar Osorio Lora, Lexington Books, 2022, pp. 83-100.
“Quinceañera.” Her Path Forward: 21 Stories of Transformation and Inspiration. Edited by Julie Burton and Chris Olsen. Publish Her, 2021.
“Violencia, migración y escritura en la diáspora: conversación con Ingrid Rojas Contreras.” Revista de Estudios Colombianos No. 56 (July-December 2020), pp. 99-106.
“Locura y discapacidad en Delirio de Laura Restrepo.” Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies / Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades, Vol. 45, No. 1, Re-imagining Female Disabilities in Luso-Hispanic Women's Cultural Production (Spring 2019), pp. 185-203.
“Un evento sin testigos: memoria y trauma en Las reputaciones de Juan Gabriel Vásquez.” Revista de Estudios Colombianos No. 54 (julio-diciembre 2019), pp. 60-70.
“On Love, Exile and Dislocation: An Interview with Patricia Engel.” Latino Studies. XVI.3 (Autumn 2018).
“Differentiated Citizenship.” Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South (August 2017).
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