Tania Lizarazo

Dr. Tania Lizarazo is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) contributing to the Global Studies Program, the Spanish Area, and the MA in Intercultural Communication. She is Affiliate Faculty of Gender, Women’s + Sexuality Studies, and Language, Literacy & Culture. She received her Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and Cultures, with emphases in Feminist Theory & Research and Studies in Performance & Practice from the University of California, Davis in 2015.

Her research interests include digital storytelling, Latin American cultural studies, transnational feminisms and performance studies. Her recent digital storytelling projects are a collaboration with the Gender Committee of a farmers’ organization from the Colombian Pacific: mujerespacificas.org and a collaboration with members of farm working communities in California’s Central Valley: sexualidadescampesinas.ucdavis.edu. Ongoing digital storytelling projects include: “Moving Stories: Latinas in Baltimore,” and a teaching project with Dr. Thania Muñoz D.: “Intercultural Tales: Learning With Baltimore’s Immigrant Communities”.