Overview
Stephanie M. López (she/ella) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Romance Studies (Spanish) and a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She earned her B.A. in Liberal Arts at the Florida Atlantic University and M.A. in Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University (2019). Her doctoral research asks how depictions of mothers in twenty-first century Latin American literature and film explore a regional shift in the role of maternity and how these representations speak to local struggles and resistance. Against the backdrop of the transnational feminist movement of la marea verde, increased environmental exploitation and migration crises, Stephanie’s work examines maternity as a local practice underscoring the political as maternal (Anidjar, 2024). Her research has been supported by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the Society for the Humanities as a Mellon Graduate Fellow and recipient of a Dissertation Writing Grant at Cornell University.
In addition to her doctoral work, Stephanie is interested in pursuing her work on narratives of maternity through the framework of Public and Digital Humanities. Stephanie is the host of the podcast La Malparidez from the Margins (Fall 2025) exploring how narratives around maternity circulate meaning in cultural spaces and construct social, political, and material realities. This project has been sponsored by a Humanities New York Public Humanities Grant.
Classes Taught
- SPAN 2090
- SPAN 1230
- SPAN 1220
- SPAN 1210
Publications
“Mirar de Reojo: Countervisuality and Racialised Displacement in La Playa D.C. (2012).” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 34 (1): 161–76.