Professor of the College of Modern Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Member of the National System of Researchers. She has a degree in English Literature from UNAM and a PhD in Literature from Queen Mary College, University of London. At the Colegio de México, she taught in the Program for the Training of Translators from 1992 to 2004 and in the Master's Program in Translation from 2004 to 2012. From 2001 to 2013 she was Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Letters at UNAM. Her research interests are: Anglophone postcolonial literature; colonial discourse analysis; cultural studies; theory; history and practice of translation. She is the author of, among others, La otredad del mestizaje. América Latina en la literatura inglesa moderna (2001); co-author, with Claudia Lucotti, of Ensayos sobre poscolonialismo y literatura (2008). In 2014 she coordinated the collective book Leer, traducir, escribir and in 2015, the translation of poems by Janet Frame, Huesos de Jilguero. In 2018 she won the Bellas Artes Prize for Literary Translation for her Spanish version of Nervous Conditions, by Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga.
More than a linear, chronological development, the reader will appreciate that this volume was built around an idea, or a set of ideas, about what India represents. It is, of course, a limited space, an invention, and for this reason the title itself shows a conscious effort, hopelessly incomplete, to organize a series of knowledge around a topic that overflows in all aspects: studies on India.
It is common that - from an academic point of view - modern India, classical India and all the other Indies are studied separately. There is usually little communication between the different types of specialists, some closer to social disciplines, others to the humanities and the arts.
However, this frequent disconnection exists only in the formal sphere, since a glance at any of the works that make up this book is enough to realize that there is a constant dialogue between them through which there is a kind of coming and going throughout history and academic disciplines.