Felipe Quetzalcoatl Quintanilla

Felipe Quintanilla is an assistant professor of Hispanic Studies at Western University, where his research and teaching cover a wide range of topics and genres, including the Salvadoran Postwar memory and oral history, gender and sexuality in contemporary Latin American cinema and literature, U.S. Latin@ representation in popular media, and Spanish-English translation. His creative works have been included in several print anthologies as well as in various online publications, and he is currently writing a novel entitled La vida en Canadá [Life in Canada]. Born in Mexico City to a Mexican mother and a Salvadoran father, Felipe emigrated to Canada at the age of ten, and he received his PhD in Hispanic Studies from Western University in 2012.

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