About Me
Jorge A. Hernández Jr., Ph.D.
I am a Chicanx and Latinx literary and cultural studies scholar and postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico’s Center for Regional Studies. I received my Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese, with distinction, from the University of New Mexico, and I hold an M.A. in Spanish and B.A.s in Foreign Languages and History from New Mexico State University. I am currently completing my first book, Corazones Urbanos: Critical Literary Regionalism and Southwest Cities, which examines how Mexican American writers critique the displacement of communities in the historic downtowns of Tucson, Albuquerque, and San Antonio. I am also developing Mapas del Corazón, a digital literary cartography project that uses ArcGIS StoryMaps to map Chicanx and Latinx literature onto the places that shaped it.
As a first-generation college graduate who grew up in the unincorporated colonia of Vado, New Mexico, I feel especially committed to scholarship that takes seriously the places Mexican American communities call home and the forces that threaten them. My research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Chicanx and Latinx literature and culture, regional and urban studies, critical literary regionalism, border and migration studies, digital humanities, and public humanities.
