Join the UTRGV First Year Experience Podcast crew with their special guests Dr. David Bowels and Dr. Marla Watson from UTRGV to talk about the Academics of Horror!
David Bowles is a Mexican-American author from South Texas, where he teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. His work has been published in multiple anthologies, plus venues such as The New Your Times, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, School Library Journal, Rattle, Translation Review, and the Journal of Children’s Literature. For more additional works by Dr. Bowels, go to:
https://davidbowles.us/about/
Additionally, Dr. Cathryn Merla-Watson's research and teaching interests include Latinx literary and cultural studies; Latinx speculative aesthetics; gender and critical sexuality studies; Latina feminisms; women and queer of color theories; and feminist geography. She has published in journals such as Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies and Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S. (MELUS) and chapters in anthologies, including Research Justice, edited by Andrew Jolivette, and The Un/Making of Latino Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics.
In this episode, the podcast team will be a discussion on folklore, historical markers, and how horror is seen in Latinx communities.
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