Nayive Gaytán

Nayive Gaytán is originally from Southern California and spent most of her adolescence in south Texas. She studied history and Spanish at Emory University where her honors research on regional tourism, an iconic cultural product, and Mexican national identity was supported by fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and the Halle Institute for Global Research. Her future research interests include the representations of race, ethnicity, and class in 20th and 21st-century Latin American literature and visual media, environmental history, and social movements