María del Carmen Caña Jiménez

A faculty member in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures since 2011, María del Carmen Caña Jiménez is an associate professor of Spanish and the author of 20 articles.

Caña Jiménez is the editor of Desafíos, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadanía: mutantes y monstruos en la producción cultural latinoamericana reciente (A Contracorriente, forthcoming in Fall 2020) and “Beyond Violence (Criticism) in Contemporary Hispanic Narratives and Cinemas” (Hispanófila 178, 2016). She also co-edited with Vinodh Venkatesh Horacio Castellanos Moya: El diablo en el espejo (Albatros 2016) and “Affect, Bodies, and Circulations in Contemporary Latin American Film” (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 20, 2016). Caña Jiménez serves as the Latin American book review editor of Hispanófila.

Caña Jiménez also serves as faculty advisor, founder, and choreographer of Olé at Virginia Tech, the flamenco dance student organization. She has won several awards for her teaching, service, and commitment to inclusion and diversity.