Sylvia Fernández
Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. Currently, she works as a Teaching Assistant with the Spanish as a Heritage Language Program. Her research is on US Latino/a Literature with a focus on US-Mexico Border, Transnational and Intersectional Feminism Theory, Hispanic Archives, Digital Humanities. Among her DH collaborations, she cofounded Borderlands Archives Cartography (BAC), is part of the core team of Torn Apart / Separados, and currently, she is a member and the coordinator of a forthcoming team-based initiative titled, United Fronteras. Other projects she participates with is in the making of a US Latino/a Digital Humanities Center, as well as various projects with Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program.
