Aurora Munoz

Aurora Muñoz was born in Mexico in the early 1960s in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, in a family of nine children. Her first studies were carried out in the schools of Guadalajara. Later, she studied business administration at the University of Guadalajara. In the late 1980s, she emigrated to the United States. She has attended the community colleges in San Diego, California and Mesa, Arizona. She transferred to Arizona State University, where she obtained a bachelor's in Spanish and a master's degree in Spanish with emphasis in Chicano literature. The subject of her dissertation was "Traumatized, missing and dead migrants: Mexican girls, boys and adolescents, Chicano and Eulatinos represented in the narrative and the cinema." She has participated actively in conferences in Chicago and Arizona. She also worked as a Spanish instructor at Arizona State University during 2010-2014. She was responsible for the management and organization of the first book fair at the 15th Annual Spanish Graduate Literature Conference at Arizona State University in 2012. She works with Chicano writer Margarita Cota-Cárdenas as editor and personal assistant, and helped her in the transcription and editing with her publication of a bilingual book of poems: "Poemática Inspiración y Fiebre: poesía mechicana y relato" (2016).

She imparted the Hispanic Heritage in the Southwest and elementary to intermediate Spanish class at Phoenix College as an adjunct faculty member. She has worked for almost five years at Phoenix College.

Muñoz is currently Spanish doctoral candidate in the School of International Letters and Cultures at ASU. Her research interests include Spanish and Chicano studies. She teaches elementary to intermediate Spanish classes at ASU Online.