Thania Munoz D. is an immigrant educator, translator, poet, and scholar. Her writing and translations have appeared in Copihue, Fence, the Latin American Literary Review, and others. She immigrated in 1998 to Southern California from Jalisco, Mexico, and since 2015 has lived in Maryland. She is an associate professor of Latinx and Latin American literature, director of the MA Program in Intercultural Communication at UMBC, and the managing editor and founder of Latin@ Literatures.
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"Thania Munoz D. brilliantly illuminates the work of Latin American writers in the United States as a dynamic new field within Latinx and Latin American literatures, and reveals the need for multilingual, comparative readings to understand how this work is reshaping U.S. literature and culture. Against the tendency to detain, imprison, or devalue the cultural contributions of Latin Americans, this book grapples with acclaimed and exciting new writing by Cristina Rivera Garza, Edmundo Paz Soldan, and Alberto Fuguet, with special attention to their treatment of the alienating experience of immigrating to the United States." -Laura Lomas, author of Translating Empire: Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities "Munoz's application of narrative memory in the analyses of the works of Paz Soldan, Fuguet, and Rivera Garza combines with the different manifestations of their characters' immigration circumstances to provide an interesting and informative read." -Michele Shaul, author of A Survey of the Novels of Ana Castillo: A Contemporary Mexican American Writer