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Sebastián López Vergara
Post-Doc IDEA Fellow, Lecturer
Office: HUM 1144
Sebastián López Vergara specialices in Latinx and Indigenous Diaspora Studies. His
research focuses on Indigenous representations across media and their relationships
to histories of dispossession in modern Latin America with a particular focus on Chile.
He completed his PhD at University of Washington, Seattle, where he taught cultural
studies, critical ethnic studies, and Latin American studies courses, as well as Spanish
language and contemporary Latin American history with University Beyond Bars, an organization offering post-secondary education to the incarcerated in Washington
State’s prisons. Prior to Washington state, Vergara lived in Chile, where he was raised,
and earned a BA in English Literature and Linguistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica
de Chile.
This fall semester 2023, Sebastián will be offering a SPN 400/500 course on Hispanic
Cultures in Contact.