Mariana Muriel Martínez Herrera
She is studying her Master’s degree in Comparative Literature UNAM and the Università di Bologna. She holds a BA degree received cum laude in Modern Languages and Literatures from UNAM and in 2022 she was awarded the Alaíde Foppa Prize for the best undergraduate work in Italian Literature.
She has taught Italian language at the Facultad de Estudios Superiores UNAM – Acatlán (2024) and at the CUC Language Centre (English and Italian, 2021-2022). She has worked as a teaching assistant to Dr. Susana González Aktories in the seminars of Literary Theory ‘Structuralism and Post-structuralism’ as well as ‘Literature and Other Arts I and II’ for two and a half years at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM. At the same time, she participated as a speaker, assistant, and organiser in various colloquiums, conferences, and seminars. She was also a volunteer in the area of Educational Services at the Vasconcelos Library, where she taught literature workshops and organised reading circles. She is also co-founder of the collective Polinexas, which seeks to generate and disseminate culture, especially in marginalised communities, through a multidisciplinary approach. Some of her poetry, prose, and translations (Italian-Spanish) have been published in independent media.
She joined the PoéticaSonora MX project in 2017, fulfilling her social service from September 2018 to March 2019 within the PIFFyL project on Comparative Literature, and then as a fellow within the PAPIIT project (IG400519) ‘Las representaciones de la voz y sus materialidades: archivos, impresos y sonido’. She has collaborated as curatorial assistant to two guest artists (Bárbara Lázara and Sarmen Almond), as well as writing for the website and doing editorial work in the Digital Audio Repository. She is co-author of the chapter ‘Curation as a way of broadening perspectives and methodology to enrich a sound archive: the case of Poética Sonora MX’ in the volume Oralidades en la era digital: archivos, activaciones, memorias y resonancias, edited as part of the PAPIIT project ‘Las representaciones de la voz y sus materialidades: archivos, impresos y sonido’ (IG400221) by Susana González Aktories and Mariana Masera.
Her main interests and lines of research focus on: poetry, avant-garde, inter/multi/transmediality, didactics, translation and literary creation.
Texts published on this website:
- Let’s be a voice: notes on the curatorship of Bárbara Lázara
- In conversation with Sarmen Almond: ‘The voice is a sound, but I also understand the voice as that multiplicity of sounds that I don’t emit, all those voices that I hear in my head, that we all hear inside’.
- Chronicle of the opening of “Mercenarias del fango. Sound experimentation and gender” at the Border Cultural Center on January 30, 2020.