She holds a Master’s degree in Science for Economic Development and International Cooperation from Hiroshima University and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Since 2017, she has served as Deputy Director of the University Program for Asian, African and Oceanian Studies (PUEAA-UNAM) and has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences since 2009. She coordinates the Professional Certificate in Asian Studies since 2015, as well as various academic activities focused on Japan, emphasizing Mexico–Japan bilateral relations and contemporary Japanese literature written by women. She was President of the Mexican Association of Former Japan Scholars (2021–2023) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Japanese Lyceum (2018–2022), where she is currently an active associate. She received the Teaching Excellence Award from Universidad Anáhuac México (2018). She was a MEXT scholar and guest of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
Cariños y recuerdos de una pandemia reúne los escritos de 15 integrantes del Programa Universitario de Estudios sobre Asia y África (PUEAA), quienes recurren al género epistolario a fin de plasmar sus vivencias durante la pandemia por Covid-19.
Como escribe Alicia Girón, los integrantes del PUEAA "soñábamos con realizar actividades en diferentes lugares, como Corea, China, Japón, India, Marruecos, Senegal, Sudáfrica y España [...] pero todo cambió el 16 de marzo, cuando se decretó el cierre de todas las actividades". Así, las cartas contenidas en este libro están dirigidas en su mayoría a seres queridos o admirados que viven fuera de México. De este modo, los autores nos permiten vislumbrar no sólo su propio mundo privado e intereses de estudio sino también el de sus interlocutores, dándonos por ende una muestra de su sensibilidad ante un evento que ha afectado a todo el mundo. En efecto, la variedad de termas expuestos en las cartas van desde la nostalgia del encuentro físico, hasta la angustia debido al número de muertos y contagiados, pasando por los avatares de la vida cotidiana.
Acompañado de las ilustraciones de Yussef A. Galicia, Cariños y recuerdos de una pandemia revela con delicadeza el "compromiso de cada autor [...] tuvo para transmitir sus vivencias durante la pandemia de Covid-19 en el 2020".
Relations between Mexico and Japan have taken a vertiginous course in recent decades, which propose the need to understand the nation of the Rising Sun not only from a commercial point of view but also from a political, religious, aesthetic and fine arts point of view. In this sense, Yukio Mishima stands as a spokesperson par excellence that, through literature, theatre, film and even modelling, is a parameter in Mexico to understand our partner on the other side of the Pacific.
In this work, he offers different perspectives from Mexican and Japanese experts who, summoned by the University Program of Studies on Asia and Africa (PUEAA-UNAM), from literature, diplomacy, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, translation, peace studies and politics offer interpretations of Mishima's legacy while allowing us to know and understand Japan from the second half of the 20th century.
In the framework of the 400 years since Hasekura arrived in Mexico, the University Seminary of Asian Studies (SUEA), the Institute of Philological Research and the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences through their Center for International Relations, entities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), undertook the labour of organizing the Japanese Culture Day to commemorate the anniversary of what has traditionally been considered the first Japanese embassy in Mexico: the Hasekura Mission.
This publication is the result of that academic day, this also has the purpose of recovering the memory of the cultural relations between Mexico and Japan. In this way, gives the reader the possibility to get close to know various aspects of Japanese culture in their own field and in their relationship with Mexico. The studies included have a variety of topics that are organized in four sections: 1. Japan as an object of study; 2. The Hasekura Mission: a historical reassessment; 3. The regional economic system and 4. Language and Literature.