Javier Muñoz-Díaz (he, him, his) is a literary and cultural critic. He earned a B.A. in Hispanic Linguistics and Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2009), and a Ph.D. in Spanish at the University of Colorado at Boulder (2019). His research focuses on Latin American literature, Andean and Amazonian Studies, Indigenous Studies (Quechua/Kichwa), Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Environmental Humanities.
Courses Taught
SPA 141 Spanish I (Elementary)SPA 147 Spanish for Business I
MLG 327 Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
Education
- Ph.D., Spanish, University of Colorado Boulder, 2019
- B.A., Humanities (Linguistic and Literature), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2009
Publications
- Javier Munoz-Diaz, En busca de la utopía travesti/trans: goce y bienestar en la poesía de Gia Lujuria, Gretel Warmicha y Sandra Diaz, Metáfora Revista de Literatura y Análisis del Discurso (Lima), 8(15) 2025, 230-252.
- Javier A. Muñoz-Díaz, Kathia Ibacache and Leila Gómez, Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum: Latin American and Latinx Sources, London: Routledge (2024).
- Javier Munoz-Diaz, La utopía de la sexodisidencia indígena en la costa peruana: “Telúricas subterráneas” de Javier Vargas Sotomayor, Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, 98(49) 2023, 171-192.
- Javier Munoz-Diaz, Masculinidad subalterna y patriarcado colonial moderno en las memorias de Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, Anthropologica (Lima), 40(40) 2022, 111-136.
- Javier Munoz-Diaz, Indigenous-Inspired Authorial Figures and Networks of Rural-Urban Migrants in The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below (1971), by José María Arguedas, English Language Notes, 58(1) 2020, 75-91.
