About
I am a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies at the University of British Columbia. My dissertation tracks how contemporary literary works by Mexican women are increasingly engaging with the Gothic mode to grapple with gender-based violence. Drawing on Gothic and Horror Studies, Gender Theories, and Feminist Studies, I demonstrate that the authors in my corpus not only capture and portray the horrors of patriarchal violence, but they do so in ways that expose the entanglement among gender, class, race, politics, and neoliberal logic.
Before coming to UBC, I completed a master’s degree in Sociology at the University of Victoria (2019-2021) and a master’s degree in Comparative Literatures and Arts at Brock University (2017-2018).
You can read more about my research and other current projects here: https://sarahrevilla.github.io/
Research
Interests
- Latin American Literatures and Cultures
- Contemporary Mexican Gothic and Horror Fiction
- Gender Violence
- Intersectional Feminism and Gender Theories
- Digital Humanities
Publications
Refereed Publications
“La Llorona Hauntings: Storytelling Feminicide at the Purgatorial Mexico/US Border.” Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds, edited by Simon Bacon, Bloomsbury, 2023, pp. 55–68. Coauthored with Cristina Santos.
“Witches, Stepmothers and Princesses: Rethinking Gender and Money in NBC’s Grimm TV Series.” Grimm Realities. Essays on Identity and Justice in the Television Series,edited by Daniel Farr and Melanie D. Holm, McFarland Books, 2023, pp 140–154.
Non-Refereed Publications
Review of Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film by Carmen A. Serrano. A Contracorriente: Una revista de estudios latinoamericanos, vol. 19 no. 3, May 2022, pp. 403-407.
Review of Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance by Jonathan A. Allan. Popular Culture Studies Journal, vol. 10 no. 1, April 2022, pp. 374-376.
Awards
2024 UBC PhD CoLab pilot program awardee. “The Adaptive Text Encoding Initiative: Antiracist, Decolonial, and Inclusive Markup Interventions”
2023 UBC Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster Conference Travel Award.
2023 UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Conference Travel Award.
2022 Ximena Osegueda Prize for best graduate essay in Hispanic Studies. “Audible Absence: Feminicide, Necrowriting and Affective Listening in Chicas muertas (2014) and Cometierra (2019)”
Graduate Supervision
Graduate Supervisor: Dr. Tamara Mitchell
Conference Presentations
2024 “The Adaptive TEI Network: Antiracist, Decolonial, and Inclusive Markup
Interventions.” Texts, Languages, and Communities – TEI 2024 Conference, Buenos
Aires, Argentina, October 2024.
2024 “Sororidad frente al feminicidio en Miseria (2023) de Dolores Reyes.” [Sorority in the Face of Feminicide in Misery (2023) by Dolores Reyes.] Latin American Studies Association International Conference (online), June 2024.
2023 “Of Bones and Dirt: Re-membering Voices of Murdered Women in Selva Almada and the Tale of “La Huesera.” Folklore and Gothic (FOGO) Conference, University León,
Spain, July 2023.
2023 “Audible Absence: Feminicide, Necropolitics and Affective Listening in Chicas muertas (2014) and Cometierra (2019).” Latin American Studies Association International Conference, Vancouver, Canada, May 2023.
2023 “(Re)visiting Former Clandestine Centers as Multisensorial Spaces of Memory in Argentina.” Northeast Modern Language Association, University at Buffalo, New York, March 2023.
2021 “Ghosts and Haunting as Affective Forces.” Concordia Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Concordia (online), May 2021.
2019 “Rethinking Witches, Evil Stepmothers and Princesses in a Contemporary Urban Setting.” Cultural, Social and Political Thought Graduate Student Colloquium, The University of Victoria, Canada, October 2019.
2018 “The Façade of the Macho Masculine Myth in Alfonso Cuarón’s Y tu mamá también.” International Gender Studies Colloquium, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, October 2018.
“(De)mystifying Manhood in Mexico: The meaning of Macho.” Mapping the New Knowledges Graduate Student Research Conference, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, May 2018.