Nuria Sánchez Matias

Nuria Sánchez (she/her) is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, where she will specialize in the field of ecocriticism and industrial studies on literary and visual arts. Sánchez is particularly interested in unearthing how culture acts as critic or ally of labor and state politics, especially in genres such as speculative fiction, science fiction, and horror. She seeks to cross-pollinate disciplines, such as gender, decoloniality, disability and border studies, along with conceptual history and post-growth economy.
 

Born in Mexico City, Sánchez received her B.A. from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where she majored in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. She also has an M.A. in Art Studies from Universidad Iberoamericana, and earned Highest Honors for her thesis, an exploration of the relationship between literature, intermediality, and degrowth aesthetics. At Yale, she is also a RITM Graduate Fellow and a Fulbright Foreign Student.