Biography

Tamara L. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where her research and teaching focus on Latin American literatures and cultures. Her work has been published or will soon appear in Comparative Literature, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Modern Language Notes, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Latin American Perspectives, Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, and the Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel, among other venues.

Originally from Kansas, Tamara received a dual BA in English Literature and Spanish from Washburn University (2006). While pursuing her undergraduate degree, she spent a summer abroad at Cambridge University in England and a year at the University of Cantabria in Santander, Spain. She obtained her Master of Arts in Spanish Literature at the University of Kansas (2009). Following her Master’s degree, she spent a year abroad as Assistant Professor of English Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain, and taught for two years as a Lecturer of Spanish at Clemson University in South Carolina. Tamara received a Ph.D. in Latin American Literatures from Indiana University, Bloomington, where she conducted research abroad as a FLAS Fellow and Tinker recipient.

When she’s not busy with research, you might find Tamara at a theory reading group, shopping at the local farmers market, hiking one of Vancouver’s many green spaces with her partner, Daniel, or spending time with their cats, Gigi, Mago, and Zaza.