Dr. Laura Yadira Munguía Ochoa, member of SNI I, is a researcher, university professor and cultural promoter, specialized in Hispanic American literature, Novo-Hispanic letters, Mexican history and rhetoric in the viceregal era. Her academic career spans more than two decades of rigorous research, higher education and active participation in publishing and humanistic dissemination.
She holds a PhD in Hispanic American Literature from the Benemérita Universidad
Autónoma de Puebla, where she obtained the Cum Laude distinction for her thesis Musa estigmatizada: Estudio histórico y edición crítica de los Enigmas ofrecidos a la Soberana Asamblea de la Casa del Placer by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, directed by Dr. Alejandro Palma Castro. This work constitutes one of the most complete contributions to the philological and symbolic study of an enigmatic and little approached text within the Sor Juana's corpus.
She also has a Master's degree in History of Mexico from the University of Guadalajara
, where she developed a thesis on the discourse of love in the novo-Hispanic period based on personal letters documented by the Inquisition, under the direction of Dr. Pilar Gutiérrez Lorenzo. She also holds a Master's degree in Mexican Literature from BUAP, with a thesis focused on the semiotic analysis of Sor Juana's Enigmas, also recognized with honorable mention. Her training also includes a Specialization in Anthropology and Ethics from the Universidad Panamericana and a B.A. in Hispanic Literature from the Universidad de Guadalajara.
She currently works as a full time professor at the Humanities Institute of the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara campus**, where she teaches in the areas of history and western thought. From this academic platform she promotes interdisciplinary projects that intertwine classical humanities with contemporary reflection. She is also academic coordinator of several international congresses and meetings, in which she has promoted the dialogue between
tradition and modernity in literary studies.
In parallel, she collaborates as a lecturer at the University of Guadalajara, teaching novo-Hispanic, colonial and
Spanish-American literatures. Her current lines of research include the study of the feminine archetype in horror literature, the figure of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz from rhetorical and feminist perspectives, and the cultural history of affections in New Spain.
Dr. Munguía Ochoa combines her research work with a solid pedagogical vocation, an interdisciplinary critical view and a constant commitment to the dissemination of humanistic thought.