Professor, Spanish
CEE Advisory Board Member
- Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Spanish and Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory
- B.A., University of California, Davis
Julia Medina is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Member of the Executive Committee of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of San Diego. Prior to San Diego, she was Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Albion College, Michigan. Medina earned her Ph D from the University of California, Davis, where she specialized in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. Her current research focuses on visual culture, ecocriticism and non-fiction in Nicaragua and Central America. She is the author of articles that deal with (political) manifestoes, prologues, travel narratives, chronicles, testimonio, photographic images, film, cartoons, and public monuments.
Areas of Interest
Professor Medina has designed and taught a number of upper division courses on: Latin American and Latino/a literatures, cultures and film,Travel Narratives through the Americas, Central American literatures and cultures, Ecocritical approaches and Environmental Humanities in Latin America and TransAmerican Latino/a studies, including: U.S. Latino Literature and Culture, Hispanic Film, Short Story in Latin America, Journalism and Literature and a special topics seminar on Resistance and Revolution in Latin American Literature and Culture.