Juan García Oyervides
Director | Researcher
Juan has a PhD in Spanish from the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a first generation Mexican-American scholar in the humanities working to increase access to higher education and specialized knowledge.
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He is the current Co-Director of Observatorio de Las Américas (OLA) and serves as President of the Global Cooperative for Transdisciplinary Research and Engaged Education (GCTREE). Juan is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at West Texas A&M University.
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Research Interests: Mexican Literature and Culture, Greater Mexico & Mexican Diaspora Studies, Documentary Narratives, Latin American Visual Culture, Masculinities in Latin America, Global Studies in the Humanities.
Recent & Ongoing Projects
Voces vivas: Stories from Latinx Communities of Boulder County
In collaboration with The Museum of Boulder, Voces vivas is a ‘community curation’ project on the Latinx history of Boulder County, opened in Feb 2022 through Feb 2023. This exhibit builds upon, and adds to the work local Latinos have been doing for years to preserve and share their own stories.
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Beyond Ourselves: Mexican-American Reflections on Community, Kinship and Solidarity
This oral history project highlights the experiences of Mexican American and Chicano communities in the State of Colorado. The purpose of this project is to organize a public reflection on how these communities understand and perform virtual and transnational concepts of community, kinship and solidarity and how these have been affected by the international COVID-19 health crisis.
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Recent Articles & Publications
“Los límites del liberalismo mexicano en Monja y Casada; Virgen y Mártir de Vicente Riva Palacio”. Confluencia. Vol. 36, No. 1. (Fall 2020).
“Journalistic Selves, Authority and Emancipation in Alberto Fuguet’s Tinta Roja”. Alternative Communities in Hispanic-American Literature. Eds. Luis H. Castañeda and Javier González. Cambridge Scholars, 2016.
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"Roberto Arlt: El mundo del espectáculo y el espectáculo del mundo". LUCERNA [Lima] 12 Jul. 2014,
“¿Sólo seis? Temporary Memories of Boulder Latinx History”. El diario de la Gente [Boulder, CO], 6 Sep. 2019, p 2.