Meet the Researcher: Paulina Hernández-Trejo

Paulina Hernández-Trejo is an English Ph.D. student at the University of Notre Dame. As a transfronteriza from the El Paso/Juárez Borderland region in Texas and Chihuahua, she is intrigued by the legal, emotional, social, and haunting complexities in U.S. immigration and migration history. Her literary research focuses on the haunting presences that illuminate the underlying socio-historical complexities of the Borderlands in 20th and 21st-century Black, Indigenous, and Latinx literatures. Further, she is a digital humanist and uses digital methodologies to conduct literary cartographic analyses and create digital archival representations of marginalized histories.