Student Information
Graduate StudentSpanish Literature and Culture
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Mariana Ruiz-González was born in Mexico City in 1983. She was raised in Extremadura, Spain until she was nine years old, afterwards she returned to her country.
She is a Ph.D. student in Spanish, Latin American Literature, and a Digital Humanities and Critical Theory Certificates. She graduated from her bachelor's degree in Communications 2001-2005 in La Salle University, campus Cuernavaca, Morelos and with another bachelor degree in Iberoamerican Literature (2010-2014) in El Claustro de Sor Juana University in Mexico City. She also studied creative writing courses in Creative Essay with Valeria Liuselli (2012), and autobiography with Rossa Nissan (2010), and Poetry and Narrative with Javier Sicilia (2005).
Spanish Doctorate, Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Arizona State University (ASU); Tempe, Arizona — 2016-2021
Certificate Digital Humanities, ASU; Tempe, Arizona — 2017-2021
Certificate Critical Theory, ASU; Tempe, Arizona — 2017-2020
Origin Stories, Experimental Humanities Lab con Eileen Cheng-Yin Chow, ASU; Tempe — 2017
Teaching Communicative Methods Workshop, ASU; Tempe — 2016
Bachelor degree Hispano American Literature, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana (UCSJ); Mexico City, México — 2010-2014
Bachelor degree Communications, Universidad La Salle (ULSAC); Cuernavaca, Morelos, México — 2001-2005
Autobiography creative writing with Rosa Nissan, creative essay with Valeria Luiselli, UCSJ — 2010-2011
Research workshop in political philosophy "La dimensión del Estado", ULSAC — 2005
Creative writing with Javier Sicilia; Cuernavaca, Morelos — 2005
Cultural studies, Digital Humanities, Latin American Literature, Queer studies, Urban studies, Animal Studies and, Heritage Spanish Pedagogy.
September 2019- Hostos Review / Revista Hostosiana #15; shortstory "Fragmentos de Chavito".
November 2015- Magazine La Peste, año 2; minificción "Lardé, lardé"
Dossier Vozed "Marcianadas de Bradbury"; short stories "El regolito". http://vozed.org/portfolio/dossier-1-marcianadas-de-bradbury/
March 2014- Revista Pánico, núm. 11; ensayo literario "Claroscuro".
December 2013- Antología de cuentos Máscaras y monedas de plata: cuentos de odio y traición; story "Bar Ptolo".
March 2013- Magazine La Peste, año 1; cuento corto "Phoneutria Nigriventer". http://www.lapeste.com.mx/PDF/num8_web.pdf
July 2013- Magazine La Peste, año 1; minificción "Un azaroso caótico". http://www.lapeste.com.mx/PDF/La-Peste-Azar.pdf
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 416 | Adv Spanish for Bilinguals |
| SPA 416 | Adv Spanish for Bilinguals |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 316 | Advanced Spanish II Bilinguals |
| SPA 316 | Advanced Spanish II Bilinguals |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 316 | Advanced Spanish II Bilinguals |
| SPA 316 | Advanced Spanish II Bilinguals |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 316 | Advanced Spanish II Bilinguals |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 412 | Adv Conversation/Composition |
| SPA 316 | Advanced Spanish II Bilinguals |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 325 | Intro to Hispanic Literature |
| SPA 325 | Intro to Hispanic Literature |
| SPA 325 | Intro to Hispanic Literature |
| SPA 325 | Intro to Hispanic Literature |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 316 | Advanced Spanish II Bilinguals |
| SPA 101 | Elementary Spanish I |
2019 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SPA 429 | Writing Mexico: Major Texts |
| SPA 316 | Advanced Spanish II Bilinguals |
Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana Scholarship, $920.00 — Summer/Fall 2019
Seymour H. Jacobs Memorial Prize, Jewish Studies ($1000)— Fall 2018
Morris and Julia Kertzer Scholarship, Jewish Studies ($1000)— Spring 2019
SILC Small Research Grant, $1,350 — Spring 2017
SILC Technology Development Grant, $2,000 - Fall 2017
XXVII Annual Congress of the International association Female Hispanic Literature and Culture (AILCFH), $200 - Travel Grant 2017.
Spring 2019
Advisor for the Fullbright Student Program.
Facilitator for the Spanish Speaking Club “Enter amigos”; ASU.
Fall 2018
Advisor for the Fullbright Student Program.
Service for the ofrenda "Día de muertos", ASU.
Spring 2018
Peer reviewer for GPSA awards and fellowships; ASU.
Judge on the Language Fair: School of International Letters, ASU.
Chair in The Graduate Journal “Circunloquios”; ASU.
Fall 2018
Chair in The Graduate Journal “Circunloquios”; ASU.
Fall 2017
Facilitator for the Spanish Speaking Club “Enter amigos”; ASU.
Spring 2017
Assistant of the Graduate Journal “Circunloquios”; ASU.
Judge on the Language Fair; School of International Letters, ASU.
Spring 2017
Facilitator for the Spanish Speaking Club “Entre amigos”; ASU.
Fall 2016
Assistant in the Homecoming; ASU.
September 2016
Facilitator for the Spanish Speaking Club “Entre amigos”; ASU.
Spring 2015
Facilitator on the artistic workshops for immigrant kids; Mexican Consulate, Phoenix, AZ.