Miriam Torres Carrillo
She graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures (English Literature) from UNAM. Her thesis is entitled ‘’Can you hear me now?’ Vocal and musical interpretations of Jack Kerouac’s work’.
She was a teaching assistant to Dr. Susana González Aktories for the seminars ‘Literature and the Arts II’ and ‘Literary Theory and Criticism: Poststructuralism’ at the College of Modern Letters, during the first semester of 2019. From April 2018 to December 2022, she was planning assistant, administrative liaison, and responsible for social media communication for the Art, Science and Technologies Program at UNAM. She performs proofreading and other editorial work. Her research interests are linked to the relationship between literature and music from an intermedial perspective.
She joined PoéticaSonora MX in January 2017 as a volunteer collaborator. In this framework, she has been a member of the PAPIIT projects (IG400519) ‘Materialidades de la voz: archivos, impresos y sonido’, ‘Las representaciones de la voz y sus materialidades: archivos, impresos y sonido’ (IG400221) and ´Entre la voz y el impreso: fronteras y multimedialidad´ (IG400623). She has worked in the field and assisted in the cultural management activities of the cycle ´Velocidade. The throat, the Scream and the Voice´ (2017). She has also collaborated in the editorialization of the materials of the DAR and has contributed in the writing of research and dissemination articles about the Beat Generation as well as the sound archive of Naropa University. She is in charge of content supervision and editorial work for the PoéticaSonora MX website. She is the author of the chapter ´Reflexiones acerca de dos activaciones sonoras de los archivos de Max Aub´ in the volume Oralidades en la era digital: archivos, activaciones, memorias y resonancias, edited as part of the PAPIIT project (IG400221) ´Las representaciones de la voz y sus materialidades: archivos, impresos y sonido´ coordinated by Susana González Aktories and Mariana Masera, book for which she also provided editorial support.
Texts published on this website:
- The Beat Generation and Performance.
- Reflections on the Naropa University Archive Project (co-author).