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Diana Rodríguez Vértiz received a PhD in Latin American studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, following a master’s degree in Hispanic studies at the University of Washington. From 2012 to 2021, she worked as a research assistant with Margarita León Vega at the Philology Institute at UNAM, where she collaborated on two projects about mystical experiences in Mexican poetry. At the same time, she taught the course “Literature and Criticism of Literary Production in Latin America” in the Latin American studies graduate program. Her research is focused on the poetics of the Peruvian doctor and writer Luis Hernández Camarero. Her most recent piece explores the relationship between poetry, science, and ethics in his artistic project. Currently, she is studying his poetics of healing and his conception of poetry and medicine as divine ways to cure.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- “Murmullos del Psychodiagnostik en la poesía de Luis Hernández Camarero”. In ‘O algo tan sencillo como su nombre’: Luis Hernández: Aproximaciones y bibliografía, edited by Kathia Hanza and Luis Fernando Chueca. Pesopluma/Sistema de Bibliotecas de la PUCP, 2023.
- With Virginia Sarmiento. “David Rosenmann-Taub: la razón de la sinrazón de existir”. In Mística y Lenguaje Poético. Discursos sobre experiencias de lo absoluto, edited by Margarita León Vega. Libros UNAM, 2020.
- “Budismo tibetano en dos poemarios de Esther Seligson”. In Atisbos a lo inefable (Guía para una lectura de la poesía desde la óptica de la mística), edited by Margarita León Vega. Libros UNAM, 2019.
- “La palabra que se escucha, el sonido que se lee. Alme-ría, de David Rosenmann-Taub”. Gavagai 8, no. 2 (2021): 12–28.
