Jose Miguel Alvarado Mendoza

Jose Miguel Alvarado Mendoza is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. As part of his academic and creative practices, Jose Miguel engages forms of being and belonging that are transgressive, excessive, and fugitive. Crucial to this worldmaking otherwise, he argues, is Tijuana, Baja California, whose literature presupposes a diffractive, deeply implicated onto-epistemological aesthetics. He has presented his work at the UC Mexicanistas and Latin American Studies Association conferences, in addition to serving as a reader for Lucero, the academic journal of the Spanish and Portuguese Department at UC Berkeley. Most recently, he has collaborated with poets Omar Pimienta and Ruth Vargas Leyva, whose poetry he teaches regularly.