"Dualidad" (1964), Rufino Tamayo

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My name is Carolina Beltrán and I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles. I study discourses of indigeneity and nature in Latin America, in particular those of Mexico and Peru.

I grew up in El Centro, a small agricultural community on the California-Mexico border and earned a B.A. in History UC Irvine in 2005. I then earned an M.A. in Spanish from UCLA in 2010. I will complete my Ph.D. in December 2020.

My dissertation titled "The Natures of Indigenismo" examines how indigenista writers in México, Perú, and the U.S. employed animality and natural discourses in their revindicatory projects.

I’m interested in Latin American Literature and Culture. In particular, I’ve written and presented on Mexican and Andean Indigenismo, the Avant-Garde, Gender Studies, Environmental Criticism, Critical Animal Studies, Modernism.

Lately, I’ve been working on Border Studies, Latin American Marxism, and community pedagogy.

I am active in immigration justice movements in Los Angeles and offer interpretation services for grassroots organizations.