Two of our leading voices, Hannah Grace Morrison and Andrea Armijos-Echeverría, are both receiving doctoral degrees from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese this summer. We’re ecstatic for their accomplishments, and grateful for the poetry, prose, performances, and solidarity they have brought to OLO events throughout the years of their graduate studies.
Hannah Grace (who uses “they” pronouns) has contributed robustly to Onda Latinx Ohio open mic events and is a core member of Taco Reparations Brigade. In terms of creative work, they have held leadership roles in Day of the Dead Columbus, Calavera poetry readings, and CreWi, the Spanish and Portuguese Department’s graduate student creative writing group. They will defend their dissertation “Lo Exótico y Extravagante: Drag, Lucha Libre, and Queer Art in Mexico City” this June and have just accepted an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College. Please enjoy their OLO blog write-up for our December archive titled “A Night of Drag, Comedy, Karaoke, and Turkey.”
Andrea Armijos-Echeverria has shared daring prose with feminist sensibilities for several years at OLO open mic events and contributed to CreWi, the Spanish and Portuguese Department’s graduate student creative writing group. Working with colonial religious texts, her research focuses on the legal processes and testaments of Indigenous women in the Hispanic American colony. Andrea has published articles, reviews, and fiction, as well as an award-winning book of short stories titled Cómo tratan las mujeres a sus peces dorados (2016). Andrea has recently accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Wesleyan University for next academic year.
Many congratulations to HG and Andrea as they move onto the next chapter of their lives as scholar-artists who have long uplifted our OLO community!