CV
Education
PhD in English
Graduate Center CUNY, New York.
Current
Teaching Experience
Languages
Profeshional Memberships
Children’s Literature Association
The Folklore Society
Disney, Culture & Society Research Network
Modern Language Association
2022
2018
2016
Substitute Lecturer Queens College CUNY, Flushing, NY.
Spring 2022: Senior Seminar: Feminist Fairy Tales
Popular culture and fairytale adaptation
Archetypal theory
Feminism theory
Disability theory
Jewish studies
Trauma studies
Counter Fairy Tales and the Danger of the Single Story: Kalynn Bayron Cinderella is Dead
2022 Queens College English Graduate Conference: Catastrophe and Community:
Unpacking Fairytales of Genocide: How Authors Process the Culture, Social and Emotional Trauma of the Holocaust” Queens College English Graduate Conference. Virtual, May 2022.
Lopez-Ortiz, Nina. “Fairy Tales of Genocide: Processing the Holocaust by Recontextualising Fairy-Tale Narratives.” International Research in Children’s Literature, vol. 17, no. 3, Oct. 2024, pp. 321–34. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0582.
2022-Present
2022-Present
2022-Present
2017-Present
MA in English, summa cum laude
Queens College CUNY, Flushing, NY.
BA in English, magna cum laude
Queens College CUNY, Flushing, NY.
AA in Writing and Literature, honors
Borough of Manhattan Community College CUNY, New York, NY.
Adjunct Lecturer Lehman College CUNY, Bronx, NY.
Fall 2024: ENG 111: English Composition I
Fall 2023: ENG 111: English Composition I
Spring 2023: ENG 111: English Composition I
Fall 2022: ENG 111: English Composition I
Research and Teaching Interest
Children’s and young adult literature
Gen-ed literature courses
Popular Literature
Literary Theory
Literary Genre
Narratology
Presentations
Publications
English
Spanish
Turkish