Spring 2018 seminar: B.A. candidate, English
Salvador Herrera is a fourth-year undergraduate studying English literature with a minor in Latina/o studies. Born and raised in Chicago, his research interests include depictions of violence in transnational Latina/o literature, and theories of consciousness, identity, and spatiality. He looks to literary representations as a medium for freezing time and critically exploring space, or, as an in-between space of cultural communication, negotiation, and enunciation through imagination. He is developing a theory of simulative reading for his honors thesis, in which the reading experience can be cognitively tailored to induce social change. He plans to prove this with the deployment of text world theory, geocriticism, and effective narratology as powerful analytical tools in contemporary literary studies.