Luz Mercedes Hincapié

Luz Mercedes Hincapié was Born in Colombia, South America. She migrated to the United States as a child where she lived for 16 years before returning to her home country. She graduated from Intercultural Studies at Simon’s Rock of Bard College, Mass., with a thesis (Cum Laude) on her family’s migration. In 2002, she received her Honours Master diploma in Postcolonial Literatures from the University of Wollongong. Her thesis was entitled Immigrant, Exiled and Hybrid: Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women Travel Writers. After a year of teaching in Xi’an Technological University (China), she returned to Bogota where she taught at the Javeriana, and the National Universities. In 2006, she spent a year working in the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in a project entitled The Power of Feminine Images in Colombia: Religiosity, Discourse and Resistance. Her research interests, publications and conferences centre around the following topics: Travel Writing; Gender and Mobility in the 19th Century; Migration and Diaspora; Identity and Subjectivity; Chicana/Latina Literature in the USA; Chinese Literature; Asian American and Asian Latin American Literature; Gender Studies; Queer Studies; Postcolonial Literature.