N. Saraí García Santos
About me
I am a full-time Spanish lecturer at Suffolk University and a part-time lecturer at in Boston University’s Writing Program. I am currently researching the child subject as a fundamental agent for the reconstruction of the Nation-State consciousness during the postrevolutionary period in Mexico. I am interested in particular in revisiting those narratives that complicated the national project at its very inception, the intersections with cultural institutions, identities, race, activism, literary traditions, geopolitical, and historical developments that gave way to a polyphony of perceptions and representations of childhood in the global scope. I have taught at the undergraduate level on these topics, as well as Latin American studies. I am also a freelance copyeditor for children's literature books at Penguin Random House US; an interest of mine that has fed my ongoing relationship with the multilingual and intercultural exchanges in the editorial world.
I am originally from Mexico City, but based in Boston, Massachusetts since 2017. I have two endearing dogs, Quincy and Pepper, a vivacious newborn, Nico, and my partner in crime, Joe, with whom we adventure life. I love spending time outdoors with my family and cooking for them.
"Escribes en la montaña de los niños y pides que te diga cómo es tu país. Las moscas aplastadas de tu letra han llegado volando, curiosas, exigentes de nombres de ciudades, de héroes, de batallas, de flores, de volcanes. No tengo nada que decirte: Hernán Cortés llegó hablando en una lengua que nadie conocía."
Explicaciones a Helena en la montaña, Elena Garro
"When I was about ten/ I glued together an old/ white turtle shell,/ a woodchuck's skull,/ and red squirrel's tail/ to make my first/ mythical beast./ What has been created/ is never lost. It crawls/ up through my thoughts now/ on the feet I never gave it."
Mythical Beasts, Gregory Orr.
Upcoming
“Mexican Folkways y la creación editorial del ciudadano globalizado”. El modernismo y las comunidades imaginadas. Nuevas lecturas del fin de siglo latinoamericano. Diana Hernández Suárez y Sebastián Pineda Buitrago, ed. BUAP, Mexico, CDMX, 2023. (Upcoming book to be published)
“Luz Jiménez, Jean Charlot y Anita Brenner: la amistad como motivo y práctica de resistencia”, Disentir. Afectos y política. Roberto Cruz y Selma Rodal, ed. México, CDMX. (Upcoming book to be published)