Lucía Guzmán holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and a master’s in Humanities. She is the General Secretary of the Mexican Federation of University Students (FEMU) and a permanent member of the Commission of Gender Equality in the FFyL, UNAM. In this university, besides being a career professor, she has been the Deputy Director of International Relations in the General Directorate of Academic Exchange, the assistant secretary in the General Administrative Secretariat, and the coordinator of the department of Languages (DELEFyL). In the FCE Editorial, she was the General Planning Coordinator.

She has presented papers in Istanbul and Cape Town for the Federation of Graduate Women International (GWI), as well as in the universities of Harvard, Lisbon, Vancouver, Athens, the BUAP, and the UNAM. She belongs to the International Association of American Studies (IASA) and the American Association of Comparative Literature (ACLA). Her publications include:

• Physical Disguise and Verbal Disguise (Spain, Spanish Academic Editorial, 2012).
• Literary Applications of the Entropy Concept. (Mexico, FCE, 1995).
• ‘Florence Nightingale’, chapter in The Theory of Nursing.