Rebecca Janzen
Rebecca Janzen is a professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. She is a scholar of gender, disability, and religious studies in Mexican literature and culture whose research focuses on excluded populations in Mexico. She is the author of The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (2015), Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture (2018), and Unholy Trinity: State, Church and Film in Mexico (2021). Her most recent book, Unlawful Violence: Law and Cultural Production in 21st Century Mexico (2022), is about human rights, law, and literature. The Hagley Library, the Plett Foundation, the Kreider Fellowship at Elizabethtown College, the C. Henry Smith Peace Trust, and the Newberry Library in Chicago have supported her research.