Oana Katz
Home Department: Spanish & Portuguese
Oana Alexan Katz gained an interdisciplinary perspective on migration studies through her B.A. in International Studies and Spanish at Macalester College and her M.A. in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).
Following six years of nonprofit development work that channeled storytelling into grassroots social change, she returned to the humanities to explore resistant representational strategies through the prism of literary and cultural studies.
Oana’s research spans the migratory experience in the contemporary Iberian and U.S. Latina/o/e/x contexts. She is intrigued by the emergent field of postmigration—a space for re-narrating social situations of mobility and diversity, as well as re-conceptualizing personal and collective identities in present-day Spain. Her affiliation with the Mellon Cluster in Critical Theory at Northwestern serves as a platform for applying critical studies of race, gender, and sexuality to identity formation.