Aitor Bouso Gavín

Aitor Bouso Gavín is a Teaching Associate and PhD Candidate in the Spanish and Portuguese Program. He is also a Graduate Assistant at the UMass Amherst Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. His dissertation, tentatively entitled  Manifestations of the Wound: Decolonial Healing and Resistance in Latinx Literature and Visual Arts, is an transdisciplinary project that explores the personal, social, and political uses of the wound in the works of prominent Latinx writers and visual artists. His research interests are Latin@/x and Chican@/x Literary and Cultural Studies, US Latin@/x Art History, Critical Ethnic Studies and their intersections with literary theory, Third World and Decolonial Feminist Theory, Affect Studies, Body Cultural Studies, and Somatic Theory. Aitor's work has been featured in Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures (Fall 2022), Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies (Fall 2020), and Hopscotch Translation (Fall 2021).