Cortes, Mayra
Kaplan 220
Tel: 310.825.4173 / Fax: 310.267.4339 / E-mail
Education
A.A. in English and French, Cerritos College, 2013
B.A. in English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015
Combined M.A. & Ph.D. in Literature, University of California, San Diego, 2024
Interests
Shakespeare, sound studies, Early Modern English and Spanish literature/drama, colonial transatlantic travel literatures (with an emphasis on empire, class, labor, race, and resistance), Indigenous cosmologies, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Recent Works
“Acousmatic Noise: Racialization and Resistance in The Tempest‘s ‘New World’ Soundscape.” Early Theatre: A Journal associated with the Records of Early English Drama, vol. 25 no. 1, 2022, p. 79-106. Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/859898.
“New World” Acousmatic Soundscapes: Race & Empire-Building in Early Colonial Travel Writings. UC San Diego. ProQuest ID: Cortes_ucsd_0033D_23411. Merritt ID: ark:/13030/m5t83rb9. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0728k1br
Additional Information
Dr. Cortes has been the recipient of various fellowships, including the UC-Hispanic Serving Institution Doctoral Diversity Initiative President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship (PPPF) and, most recently, the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (CPF). Beyond that, she has been awarded other noteworthy prizes, including being recognized as a Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Scholar. She won best interpretative essay for her first article publication in the journal, Early Theatre. Recently, she was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon grant at the University of California, San Diego, to study and write about Speculative Environmental Futures.
One of Mayra’s dearest possessions is a record player where she plays Mercedes Sosa and Sam Cooke. She’s working on enlarging her vinyl collection. So, without further ado, in a world of Much Ado About Nothing, let me now drop the needle…