Biography

Joseline González-Ajanel (she/her/ella) is a first-generation Ph.D. student in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. Her research projects focus on contemporary literature by U.S. Central Americans who center transnational human rights and counter hegemonic U.S. imaginaries of Central-Americanness. She is further interested in literary testimonios told by U.S. Central Americans, Undocu-queer communities, and migrant children’s perspectives and their use of aesthetics through debris and rasquachismo. In addition, her dissertation will look at resistant U.S. Central American movements and political “monsters” in popular culture to further understand different generations of U.S. Central Americans in major cities like Los Angeles and their commitment to expanding U.S. Central American futurities. Joseline received her B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Chicana/o/e Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). She was also a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow at CSUDH from 2019-2021. Joseline is a proud Los Angeles native and daughter of Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrant parents.