Inés Sáenz
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Inés Sáenz is professor and researcher of Contemporary Latin American Literature, and Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Tecnológico de Monterrey. As Dean, she has overall responsibility for the school’s research projects and academic graduate programs.
She earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching is focused on Contemporary Latin American fiction and its relationship to Peace Studies and to Visual Culture.
Interests/Expertise:
- Peace Studies: Literature and Peace Culture
- Contemporary Latin American Literature
- Literature and the visual arts
Recent research/consultancy:
- Narratologies Contemporaines and Pour une épistémologie du littéraire, CRALÉcole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-Paris
- UNESCO-Tecnológico de Monterrey Chair on Ethics and Peace Culture for the Attainment of Human Rights.
- Religion and Culture Studies, GERYC, Colegio de Michoacán.
Recognitions, positions, memberships:
She's been working at Tecnologico de Monterrey for the past 25 years, where she developed and ran the online Masters program in Humanistic Studies (1999-2003). As part of the Office of the Provost, she developed the main curricular area of Humanities and Citizenship (2002-2007). She directed the prestigious Catedra Alfonso Reyes (2005-2007), and was appointed as the head of the Ph.D. program in Humanistic Studies in (2012-2015). After working for four years as the head of the international office in Paris, France, she returned to Mexico, where she is currently the Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Humanities, and Social Sciences..
Inés is member of an interdisciplinary research project on Peace Studies funded by UNESCO and Tecnologico de Monterrey, and is also part of the research group on Religion and Culture Studies (GERYC) held at Colegio de Michoacan.
Inés is a member of PASCAL's Board.
Selected publications:
Humanidades ¿Todavía? Alternativas para pensarnos desde la Literatura y la Ética. En coautoría con Margaret Echenberg y Osmar Sánchez. (In Press)
" Imaginar espacios para el reconocimiento y la transformación. Representaciones artísticas de la paz ". ¿Cómo se construye la paz? Un manual interdisciplinario. Fernando Montiel T., Dora Elvira García G., coordinadores. En colaboración con la Fundación Transcend International y la Fundación Ebert Siftung (Alemania), 2015.
“Recordar en tercera persona. Mudas las garzas de Selfa Chew y la política de la justa memoria". Trascender La Violencia: Críticas y Propuestas Interdisciplinarias para Construir La Paz. Dora Elvira García, coordinadora. México: Editorial Porrúa, 2014 pp. 199-218
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